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Pedro, Père

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Personal name headingPedro, Père
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Variant(s)Opeka, Pedro
Opeka, Pedro Pablo
Père Pedro
Associated countryArgentina Slovenia France Madagascar
Birth date19480629
Place of birthBuenos Aires (Argentina)
Field of activityChurch and social problems
AffiliationAkamasoa (Organization)
Vincentians
Profession or occupationPriests Missionaries
Found inPère Pedro, ou, Les collines du courage, 1994: t.p. (Père Pedro) p. 9, etc. (Pedro Opeka; 40 years old in 1989; b. in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to parents who had immigrated from Slovenia; studied philosophy in Slovenia; studied theology in France; Lazarist priest in Antananarivo, Madagascar, beginning in 1989)
Sambatra website, viewed Nov. 5, 2014 (Akamasoa; Association malgache AKAMASOA; created in 1989 by young Malagasy people with the help of père Pedro Pablo OPEKA, an Argentinian priest directing a parish in the south of the island since 1970)
Les amis du Père Pedro website, viewed Nov. 5, 2014: Le Père Pedro Opeka (b. in Argentina June 29, 1948 in San Martin, a suburb of Buenos Aires; learned masonry from his father, a mason; decided to become a priest at age 15; ordained priest in Buenos Aires in 1975, name curate in rural parish of Vangaindrano, Madagascar; in 1989 he was called to Tananarive to direct a seminary, Akamasoa created in response to the misery of the homeless there)
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