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Prado Flores, José (Pepe) H.

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José (Pepe) H. Prado Flores was born in 1947 at Morelia in Central Mexico. He is one of the most successful evangelizers of the *Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR) movement in Mexico and globally. His is the founder of the San Andres Schools of Evangelization (Escuelas de Evangelización San Andrés, EESA).

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Pepe Prado pursued catechetical, philosophical, biblical, theological, and catechetical studies in *(?)Mexico and Belgium. In Mexico City, he taught biblical studies as a layperson. In 1971, he experienced a conversion in the Holy Spirit at the Iglesia Altillo in Mexico City (Cleary 2011: 167). This church and an adjoining center for spirituality were run by Father Alfonso Navarro Castellanos and the Missionaries of the Holy Spirit (MSpS), a Mexican religious order. This spiritual center and missionaries of this religious order were the first to introduce the *CCR in Mexico (Cleary 2011: 153–154).

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  • Cleary EL (2011) The rise of charismatic Catholicism in Latin America. University Press of Florida, Gainesville

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  • Escuelas de Evangelización de San Andrés (EESA) (2016). Historia de la Evangelización de la Escuela de Evangelización San Andrés. http://www.evangelizacion.com/historia.php. Accessed 23 Feb 2016

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    Henri Gooren

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Althoff, A. (2017). Prado Flores, José (Pepe) H.. In: Gooren, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08956-0_188-1

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