The Rt. Rev. Francisco Reus-Froylán, Bishop of Puerto Rico from 1965 to 1986, died Nov. 19 of pneumonia. He was 89.
 
Bishop Reus-Froylán was elected Bishop of the Missionary Diocese of Puerto Rico by General Convention in 1964 and consecrated bishop coadjutor Nov. 30 of that year. He was the first Puerto Rican native to be consecrated a bishop of The Episcopal Church. In 1979, General Convention made Puerto Rico an extra-provincial diocese with the expectation that it would found a Caribbean province with other dioceses such as Cuba and Haiti. When that did not happen, the diocese was welcomed into full union with General Convention in 2003.
 
The son of a priest, Bishop Reus-Froylán was born in Santurce. He studied at the University of Puerto Rico, and the Dubois Church Training School in Tennessee, then  continued his education at Philadelphia Divinity School and the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Caribbean. In 1942, he was ordained a deacon and became curate at St. John’s Cathedral, Santurce.
 
Bishop Reus-Froylán served a number of congregations in Puerto Rico before rejoining the cathedral staff in 1959, when he became rector of the Spanish-speaking congregation and the director of the Episcopal Cathedral School. Three years later he was called as rector of the English-speaking congregation as well. He served on many diocesan boards and commissions, including the bishop’s council of advice, executive council, diocesan school board, board of examining chaplains and ecclesiastical court. He was chairman of the department of diocesan affairs and the commission on ecumenical relations. He was also active in youth ministry and edited Credo, the diocese’s monthly newspaper.
 
In retirement, Bishop Reus-Froylán and his wife, Doreen, lived in Vermont. She and his three daughters, Pamela, Sandra and Carolyn, survive him.