Alberto Cutie
| Alberto Cutié | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 29, 1969 San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| Nationality | Puerto Rican |
| Occupation | Rector, St. Benedict's Episcopal Church (Episcopal), Plantation, Florida |
| Spouse(s) | Ruhama Buni Canellis |
Alberto R. Cutié (born April 29, 1969 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is an Episcopal priest also known as Padre Alberto. Cutié was ordained as a priest in the Roman Catholic Church in 1995, and known as an internationally recognizable name by hosting television and radio programs.
Cutié left the Roman Catholic Church in May 2009, after publication of photographs showing him with a woman at the beach and his subsequent admission that he was in love. He has said that mandatory celibacy was only one of the theological differences that led him to leave the Roman Catholic Church for the Episcopal Church. He married Ruhama Buni Canellis and joined the Episcopal Church. He now serves as rector of St. Benedict's, an Episcopal parish in Plantation, Florida.
Cutié, the middle child and son of Cuban exiles, was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. As a teenager he worked as a DJ.
He was ordained as a Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Miami in 1995, the first ordinand of the then-newly designated Archbishop John Clement Favalora (retired 20 April 2010). As "Father Albert", he was the first priest to host a secular talk show both on radio and television. He is also a regular columnist whose writings appear in many Spanish language newspapers throughout the United States and Latin America. He gained worldwide recognition with his television debut in 1999 as the host of Padre Alberto (and later Cambia tu Vida con el Padre Alberto), a daily talk show televised on the Telemundo network. He later served as host of the weekly program America en Vivo on Telemundo International.
Beginning in 2002, Cutié hosted a weekly talk program called Hablando Claro con el Padre Alberto, reaching millions of households throughout the United States, Canada, Spain and Latin America on EWTN Español, which is part of the global network founded by Mother Angelica. In July 2003 he officiated at Celia Cruz's Funeral Mass in Miami, Florida.
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