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Próspero Alarcón y Sánchez de la Barquera
Born	1825
Died	1908  (aged 82–83)
Occupation	Catholic priest (1855–), Catholic deacon (1854–)
Position held	Metropolitan 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.

References

• Catholic Hierarchy listing for Alarcon

1. ^ Kauffman, Christopher J. (1982). Faith and Fraternalism: The History of the Knights of Columbus, 1882–1982. Harper and Row. p. 119-120. ISBN 978-0-06-014940-6.

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