Juan García Rodríguez

Juan de la Caridad García Rodríguez (born 11 July 1948) is a Cuban prelate of the Catholic Church who has served as Archbishop of Havana since 26 April 2016. He previously served as an Auxiliary Bishop of Camagüey from 1997 to 2002 and then as archbishop of that diocese from 2002 to 2016. He is a past president of the Cuban Conference of Catholic Bishops. Pope Francis raised him to the rank of cardinal on 5 October 2019.

Biography He was born in Camagüey on 11 July 1948. He was a member of the first group of Cuban priests to be educated entirely in Cuba. He was ordained a priest on 25 January 1972. In the years after his ordination he worked in parishes that are now part of the Ciego de Ávila Diocese. He developed evangelization programs in which grandparents, who still remembered their education in Catholicism as children, taught the principles of Catholicism to their grandchildren. He also, with government permission, established prison ministries.

García Rodríguez was the president of the First National Missions Assembly in Havana in 2006.

He participated in the 2014 sessions of the Synod on the Family. Granma, the newspaper of the Communist Party of Cuba, reported his appointment. He was installed on 22 May.

On 5 October 2019, Pope Francis made him Cardinal-Priest of Santi Aquila e Priscilla. He was made a member of the Congregation for the Clergy on 21 February 2020 and of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America on 20 April 2020.

He participated as a cardinal elector in the 2025 papal conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV.