Próspero Alarcón y Sánchez de la Barquera

Próspero Alarcón y Sánchez de la Barquera
Born1825 
Died1908  (aged 82–83)
OccupationCatholic priest (1855–), Catholic deacon (1854–) 
Position heldMetropolitan Archbishop of México (1892–) 

Archbishop Próspero María Alarcón y Sánchez de la Barquera (1827–1908) was a Mexican prelate of the Catholic Church. As bishop of Mexico City, he was a leader of the Mexican Church and was inspired by Pope Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum. He viewed the entrance of the Knights of Columbus into Mexico as evidence of the revival of lay Catholicism in Mexico. Alarcon was a native of Mexico and was delegated to Pontifically crown the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe in 1895.

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