Adolfo J. Bueno ’58

Adolfo died Feb. 17, 2019, in Caracas, Venezuela. He was 82.

He came to Princeton from the Lawrenceville School, where he participated in soccer, swimming, and track.

At Princeton he was on the varsity soccer team, and he roomed with Bill Cox, Fred Perkins, Dave Fulcomer, Dick Hendey, and Ace Baber. He left Princeton after sophomore year to study philosophy and theology in Rome, where he earned a doctorate in theology from the Lateran University in 1960.

Adolfo was ordained to the priesthood of the Roman Catholic Church Aug. 13, 1961 (his 25th birthday), in Spain, and one year later he returned to his native Venezuela. He was a member of the Personal Prelature of Opus Dei, a Roman Catholic lay and clerical organization whose members seek personal Christian perfection and strive to implement Christian ideals and values in their occupations and in society as a whole.

Being bilingual in Spanish and English, he spent the last years of his life doing his priestly work in the island of Trinidad. He returned to Caracas shortly before his death.