Juan Alfredo Arzube

Juan Alfredo Arzube (June 1, 1918 – December 27, 2007) was an Ecuadorian-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in California from 1971 to 1993.

In 2007, the archdiocese settled a sexual abuse allegation against Arzube.

Early life Juan Arzube was born on June 1, 1918, in Guayaquil, Ecuador to Dr. Juan B. and Maria Arzube. The younger Juan spent time in the United Kingdom before his family moved back to Ecuador. He completed high school and college there, then attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. After receiving a degree in civil engineering, Arzube moved back to Ecuador to work in his field.

Arzube moved to Los Angeles in 1944 to work in the film industry, dubbing American films into Spanish. He dubbed the voice of actor Peter Lorre in some films as well as that of the Fox character in the 1946 Disney film Song of the South. Between 1954 and 1988, Arzube served as an assistant pastor at the following parishes in Southern California:

St. Agnes, Los Angeles Resurrection, Los Angeles Ascension, Los Angeles Nativity, El Monte