Román Arrieta Villalobos

Styles of
**Román Arrieta Villalobos**
Styles of; Román Arrieta Villalobos
Reference style	His Excellency; The Most Reverend;
Spoken style	Your Excellency
Religious style	Archbishop

His Excellency

Román Arrieta Villalobos
His Excellency; Román Arrieta Villalobos
Archbishop Emeritus of San José de Costa Rica
	Arrieta in 2004
Archdiocese	San José de Costa Rica
Appointed	10 July 1979
Term ended	13 July 2002
Predecessor	Carlos Humberto Rodríguez Quirós
Successor	Hugo Barrantes Ureña
Previous post(s)	Bishop of Tilarán-Liberia (1961–1979)
Orders
Ordination	18 December 1948; by Víctor Manuel Sanabria Martínez
Consecration	21 September 1961; by Carlos Humberto Rodríguez Quirós
Personal details
Born	Román Arrieta Villalobos; 13 November 1924; San Antonio, Belén, Costa Rica
Died	8 March 2005 (aged 80); La Ribera, Belén, Costa Rica
Alma mater	Catholic University of America

Román Arrieta Villalobos, known as Manzanita (1924-2004), was a Catholic Archbishop in Costa Rica. He was born in San Antonio de Belén, Costa Rica, on November 13, 1924. He finished his secondary studies in Heredia before entering the Conciliar Seminary of San José, Costa Rica.

Ordained in the Metropolitan Cathedral of San José on December 18, 1948 by Mons. Víctor Manuel Sanabria Martínez and sent by him to Washington, D.C., to undertake his postgraduate studies. He was consecrated as first Bishop of Tilarán on September 21, 1961 at the Alajuela Cathedral. On July 10, 1979 he was appointed Archbishop of San José, a post he held until his resignation on July 13, 2002.

He took part in the Second Vatican Council where he was a member of the Commission on Canon Law.

He established the Minor Seminary of Tacares. He created a system of Social Security for the church employees, restored the Metropolitan Cathedral, and promoted the establishment of the Universidad Católica de Costa Rica.

He died in the home where he was born on March 7, 2004.