Pastor Cuquejo

Eustaquio Pastor Cuquejo Verga C.Ss.R. (born 20 September 1939) is the emeritus Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Asunción.

Cuquejo was born on San Estanislao. He joined the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer in 1957. From 1959 to 1964 he studied theology and philosophy at the Redemptorist priest's seminar in Esopus, New York. There he received his holy orders on 21 June 1964. He then studied pastoral psychology in Annapolis, Maryland. After a short time as a vicar in Paraguay, he became professor and apostolic prefect at the seminar of the Redemptorists in Ponta Grossa, Brazil on 21 July 1968, and from 1973 professor of moral theology at the Theologicum de Curitiba. From 1975 to 1977, he completed a postgraduate degree in Moral Theology at the Academia Alfonsiana in Rome, belonging to the Pontifical Lateran University.

On 6 January 1978 he was elected provincial superior of the Redemptorists in Paraguay; in 1981 he was re-elected. From 1978 to 1982 he was vice president of the Confederación de Religiosos del Paraguay, and from 1981 he was president of the Conferencia de Puebla.

In 1982, he was appointed Bishop of Budua by Pope John Paul II and appointed as auxiliary bishop in Asunción. The Archbishop of Asunción, Ismael Rolón Silvero gave him his holy orders in the Metropolitan Cathedral on 15 August 1982; co-consecrators were the then Auxiliary Bishop of Asunción Jorge Adolfo, Carlos Livieres Banks, and Aloísio Ariovaldo (Tarcísio) Amaral, then Bishop of Limeira, Sao Paulo.

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