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April 10, 2012
Luis Aponte Martínez, Puerto Rican cardinal (born 1922)
Luis Aponte Martínez
Luis Aponte Martínez was a Puerto Rican Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of San Juan from 1965 to 1999. He is the only Puerto Rican to have been named a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He participated as an elector in the two conclaves of 1978, which elected Popes John Paul I and John Paul II.