Manuel Arteaga-Betancourt

His Eminence Manuel Arteaga y Betancourt
Cardinal Archbishop of San Cristóbal de la Habana
See	Havana
Installed	1941 – 1963
Predecessor	José Manuel Dámaso Rúiz y Rodríguez
Successor	Evelio Díaz-Cía
Orders
Created Cardinal	18 February 1946
Personal details
Born	28 December 1879 Camagüey, Cuba
Died	20 March 1963 Havana, Cuba
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Styles of Manuel Arteaga y Betancourt
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Havana

Manuel Arteaga y Betancourt (December 28, 1879 – March 20, 1963) was a Cuban Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Havana from 1941 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1946 by Pope Pius XII.

Manuel Arteaga y Betancourt was born in Camagüey to Rosendo Arteaga Montejo and his wife Delia Betancourt Guerra. Baptized as Manuel Francisco del Corazon de Jesus on April 17, 1880 by Father Vigilio Arteaga, he was confirmed by Archbishop José María Martín de Herrera y de la Iglesia on November 17, 1882. His paternal uncle, a priest by the name of Ricardo Arteaga Montejo, took Manuel to Venezuela in 1892, the former having previously left Cuba for that county for political reasons.

Arteaga obtained his bachelor's in philosophy on June 15, 1898 from Universidad Central de Venezuela, and entered a Capuchin convent in Caracas in 1900. However, for reasons of health, he left the convent and entered the Seminary of Santa Rosa de Lima in Caracas on April 12, 1901.

Receiving the subdiaconate and diaconate in 1902, Arteaga was eventually ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Juan Bautista Castro on April 17, 1904. He did pastoral work in Cumaná from 1906 to 1912, and then in Camagüey until 1915. Before becoming Canon Schoolmaster in 1916, Arteaga was named provisor and vicar general of the Archdiocese of Havana 1915. He was raised to the rank of Domestic Prelate of His Holiness on May 31, 1926, and Vicar Capitular of Havana on January 3, 1940.

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