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Miguel Esteban Hesayne (born 26 December 1922 in Azul, Buenos Aires) is the Catholic Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Viedma. Events 1481 - Battle of Westbrook - Holland defeats troops of Utrecht. Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Azul is the head city of the Azul Partido, located at the center of the Buenos Aires Province in Argentina, 300 km south of Buenos Aires A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight Emeritus (ɨˈmɛrɨtəs is an Adjective that is used in the title of a retired Professor, Bishop or other professional In many rites of the Roman Catholic Church and in Anglican churches, a diocese is an administrative territorial unit administered by a Bishop. Viedma is the capital city of the Argentine province of Río Negro and the Adolfo Alsina Department of that province

He was ordained priest on 12 December 1948. In general religious use ordination is the process by which individuals are consecrated, that is set apart as Clergy to perform various religious rites and ceremonies A priest or priestess is a person having the authority or power to administer religious rites in particular rites of sacrifice to and propitiation of a deity or deities Events 627 - Battle of Nineveh: A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeats Emperor Khosrau II 's Persian Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He was appointed bishop of Viedma, Río Negro, on 5 April 1975, ordained on 4 June and installed on 8 July of the same year, at the age of 52. Río Negro is a province of Argentina, located at the northern edge of Patagonia. Events 456 - St Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary bishop Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 781 BC - The first historic Solar eclipse is recorded in China. Events 939 - The Major Occultation or Ghaybat el-Kubra of Muhammad al-Mahdi 1099 - First Crusade: 15000

Hesayne was the bishop of Viedma for 20 years, until 28 June 1995, when he resigned. Events 1098 - Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul. Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 He ruled his episcopal see during the dictatorial regime of the National Reorganization Process (1976–1983), and was among the very few members of the Argentine Catholic hierarchy to openly criticize its human rights abuses and crimes, such as the murder (masqueraded as a road accident) of bishop Enrique Angelelli by a military task force in 1976. A dictatorship is usually defined as an autocratic Form of government in which the Government is ruled by a Dictator. The National Reorganization Process (in Spanish, Proceso de Reorganización Nacional, often simply El Proceso) was the name used by its leaders The Roman Catholic Church in Argentina is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and the Curia Human rights refers to the "basic Rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled Enrique Ángel Angelelli ( 17 June 1923 – 4 August 1976) was a Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church of Argentina

Hesayne continued to be a critic of government policies after the return of democracy, especially during the neoliberal rule of Carlos Menem in the 1990s, and his successor Fernando de la Rúa. Originally coined by its critics and opponents " neoliberalism " is a label referring to the recent reemergence of Economic liberalism or Classical liberalism Carlos Saúl Menem Akil (born July 2, 1930) was President of Argentina from July 8, 1989 to December 10, 1999 Fernando de la Rúa (born September 15 1937) is an Argentine politician In 1999 he wrote to Menem after the president called bishop Rafael Rey, president of Argentine Caritas, a liar. Caritas Internationalis is a confederation of 162 Catholic relief, development and social service organisations operating in over 200 countries and territories Menem had spoken about a decrease in poverty, and Rey had contradicted him, stating that poverty was high and had actually increased over the previous five years. Poverty (also called penury) is deprivation of common necessities that determine the quality of life including food clothing shelter and safe Drinking water, and Hesayne told Menem: "You might deceive even the Pope with political fallacies, but not the Lord of the Church and of History, Jesus Christ, for whom what we have truly done for the poor is worth. " (Menem had been decorated by Pope John Paul II in 1993 for his anti-abortion stance. Pope An )

In 2001, Hesayne again criticized the neoliberal policies of President De la Rúa, and even threatened him with excommunication. Excommunication is a religious Censure used to deprive or suspend membership in a religious community In a followup letter to him, he told the president: "Is it licit for a Christian to receive the Communion if in fact he assumes the neoliberal ideology that engenders death for millions. . . death of children just after birth, accelerated death for the elderly and slow death to generations of young ones? [. . . ] All the actions of your government have been in favour of the markets, and against the people. "

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