Manuel Hilario de Céspedes

Manuel Hilario de Céspedes y García Menocal (11 March 1944 – 26 March 2025) was a Cuban Roman Catholic prelate, who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Matanzas from 2005 to 2022. He studied for the priesthood in Venezuela and filled pastoral assignments there for twelve years before returning to his native Cuba, where he worked in the Diocese of Pinar del Rio until being appointed bishop.

Biography De Céspedes was born in Havana, Cuba, on 11 March 1944. and received his episcopal consecration on 4 June in the cathedral in Pinar del Rio from José Siro González Bacallao, Bishop of the Pinar del Rio, assisted by Cardinal Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Archbishop of Havana and Pedro Meurice Estíu, Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba.

Pope Francis accepted his resignation on 22 March 2022. He died on 26 March 2025, at the age of 81.