The Archdiocese of Seville reported the death of Fr. Pedro Elena García, 32, on Thursday, September 10, after having been hospitalized for several days in the Intensive Care Unit because of a cardiac arrest. The presbyter caused many Catholics in Spain and other places to join in prayer.
“Since the news of his hospitalization was known, there have been numerous samples of affection and prayers that the family and the parish communities of Los Palacios and Villafranca and Lantejuela have received,” says the Note from the Archdiocese of Seville.
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The text also indicates that Fr. Pedro “has generated a current of affection wherever it has passed, and during its convalescence in the Hospital of Dos Hermanas, the presence of groups of faithful praying for their recovery has been constant.”
“Equally significant have been the proximity samples expressed these days through social networks by individuals and ecclesial institutions,” he adds.
In his X account, the archbishop of Seville, Mons. José Ángel Saiz Meneses, expressed his pain for the death of the young priest and encouraged to pray “for his eternal rest And we ask Christ Good Shepherd, Sumo and Eternal Priest to open the doors of heaven. I ask you to also pray for your family right now. ”
“To our mother the Virgin of the Kings and mother of all the priests we implore with faith and hope,” he added. The prelate publication has had, until the publication of this note, 157,000 views, 5,000 likes and 409 comments.
Another priest of Seville, identified in X as Israel RG, published on September 6 a request for prayer by Fr. Pedro, who has had 292,300 views so far, 19,000 likes and 2,000 comments.
“I beg a prayer, please.”
My young companion and brother priest (also from my archdiocese of Seville), Pedro Elena, suffered a cerebral infarction and is seriously hospitalized.
My God works in him with your power and Sánalo if it is your will.#Prayer 😞🙏🏻 pic.twitter.com/W1PUpaar4v— P. Israel R. G. (@PIsraelRG) September 6, 2025
A couple of days before, on September 4, the account of Young Catholics He also asked to pray for the presbyter, having more than 64,000 views, 3,000 likes and 524 republications.
The funeral of the late priest were held this Thursday in the parish of Our Lady of the Oliva de Lebrija.
Who was Pedro Elena García?
Pedro Elena García was a Spanish priest born in Lebrija on April 21, 1993. As a deacon, he was destined in the Sevillian parish of the ascension of the Lord.
He was ordained a priest on June 20, 2020 by the then archbishop of Seville, Mons. Juan José Asenjo. He presided over his first mass in the chapel of the monastery of the conceptionist religious of his hometown.
He exercised his priestly ministry as a parish vicar of Sta. María la Blanca in Los Palacios and Villafranca. According to religion in freedom, the priest was very close to Search sevilla.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.