The third of four children, Octavio Cisneros was born on July 19, 1945, in
Las Villas, a
province of Cuba, to Roberto Cisneros and Olga Lezcano. He and his family moved to
Havana shortly after his birth. He studied in Cuba under the
Piarist Fathers as a child. In October 1961, Octavio Cisneros immigrated to the United States as a
political refugee as part of
Operation Peter Pan. Relocated to
Marquette,
Michigan, he attended Negaunee St. Paul High School in
Negaunee, Michigan. Cisneros then studied at
St. Lawrence Minor Seminary in Mount Calvary, Wisconsin, where he obtained an
Associate of Arts degree, and at
Niagara University in Lewiston, New York, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree. He studied
theology at DeSales School of Theology in Washington, D.C., and at the
Seminary of the Immaculate Conception in Huntington, New York, earning a
Master of Divinity degree. ==Priesthood==