Luis Pascual Dri

Luis Pascual Dri, OFM Cap. (17 April 1927 – 30 June 2025) was an Argentine priest of the Catholic Church. He was a member of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.

Pope Francis made him a cardinal on 30 September 2023.

Biography Luis Pascual Dri was born on 17 April 1927 in Federación, in the province of Entre Ríos, Argentina. From a very young age, he took care of the work in the fields, taking care of the animals and also planting corn and alfalfa. He attended the local rural school. He entered the Capuchin Seminary at the age of 11 in January 1938 and completed his primary and secondary studies there. He entered the novitiate in the Nuevo París neighborhood of Montevideo, Uruguay and took his first vows on 21 February 1945. In 1949, he made his perpetual profession. He was ordained a priest on 29 March 1952 in the cathedral of Montevideo.

He became director of the San Francisco de Carrasco Minor Seminary in 1953. In 1955, he became director of the Seraphic Seminary of Villa Gdor, Galvez, Argentina, and in 1959 master of novices in San Francisco de Carrasco. Beginning in 1961 he worked in Europe as formator of novices. and returned to the Shrine where he continued to hear confessions for several hours each day. Dri described meeting Pope Francis often when he was archbishop of Buenos Aires and reported that Francis had then sent priests to see him for counseling. Dri did not attend the consistory because of his health and age. He received his cardinal's regalia on 11 October from Archbishop Mirosław Adamczyk, Apostolic Nuncio to Argentina, at a ceremony in the cathedral of Buenos Aires. At that consistory, he was made cardinal deacon of Sant'Angelo in Pescheria.

Dri died in Buenos Aires on 30 June 2025, at the age of 98.