CARDINAL Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino
AP	Born: Oct. 18, 1936 Archbishop of San Cristobal de la Habana He received his diploma in Arts and Sciences in 1955, and studied theology at the seminary of the Foreign Mission in Quebec, Canada. He was ordained priest in 1964 in his native Cuba. In 1966 the Cuban government sent Alamino to a UMAP work camp, but after a year in imprisonment he was released and was allowed to continue his ministry in his hometown of Jaguey Grande. Along with pastoral work, Alamino taught moral theology at the interdiocesan Seminary of La Habana and has always maintained an emphasis on young people. He was appointed Archbishop of San Cristobal de la Habana, Cuba in 1981, and worked rebuilding churches and parish houses and building youth centers in Cuba. In 1994 he became the first Cuban Cardinal since the 1959 revolution, and is currently the President of the Cuban Episcopal Conference. Alamino has long been outspoken about human rights abuses in Cuba.