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Luis Olivieri

1937 - 2017 Hymnal Number: 373 Author (estr. 3) of "El mundo es de Dios" in El Himnario Puerto Rico, University and Seminary Professor, Baptist Minister Sing a New Song No. 3 by Patrick Prescod (Bridgetown, Barbados: Cedar Press, 1981)

Elizabeth Lee Smith

1817 - 1898 Hymnal Number: 18 Translator (inglés) of "Dios, te saludo, eres Redentor" in El Himnario Smith, Elizabeth Lee, née Allen, daughter of Dr. W. Allen, President of Dartmouth University, was born in 1817, and married in 1843 to Dr. H. B. Smith, who became Professor in Union Theological Seminary, New York, in 1850, and died in 1877. Mrs. Smith's hymns, including translations of "Je Te salue", “O Jesus Christus", are in Schaff's Christ in Song, 1869 and 1870. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) According to the Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology, Elizabeth Lee Smith passed away in 1898. "Elizabeth Lee Smith." The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology. Canterbury Press. Web. 19 Apr. 2018. http://www.hymnology.co.uk/e/elizabeth-lee-smith.

Pablo Fernández Badillo

b. 1919 Hymnal Number: 23 Author of "Al caer la lluvia (As the rain is falling)" in El Himnario Puerto Rico, Teacher Sing a New Song No. 3 by Patrick Prescod (Bridgetown, Barbados: Cedar Press, 1981)

Alejandro Mejia

b. 1937 Person Name: Alejandro Mejía Hymnal Number: 339 Author of "Como el ciervo al agua va" in El Himnario

William Loperena

1935 - 1996 Hymnal Number: 135 Author of "Un mandamiento nuevo" in El Himnario William Loperena, O.P. Father William Loperena was born in Moca, Puerto Rico on December 14, 1935. He was the middle son of Evaristo Loperena Ortega and America Soto Hernández. Raised in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico where he studied at the Colegio San Carlos. He attended the diocesan seminar San Ildefonso in Aibonito, Puerto Rico. Eventually joined the Order of Preachers known as Dominicans on August 16, 1955. Studied philosophy in Dover, Massachusetts, Washington and theology in Nijmegen, Holland. He became an ordained priest in the Netherlands on September 25, 1961. In 1968, he composed a complete Catholic mass infused with cultural elements of Puerto Rico including folk music and deeply rooted traditions which he called Misa Jíbara that was recorded in the studio of the Dominican seminar in Bayamon, PR, and in the Church del Santo Cristo de la Salud in Comerío, PR. Father William Loperena had vast knowledge of music and was a music composer of several genres including classical, folkloric and popular. His contribution to the music is recognized and appreciated throughout Puerto Rico, USA and Latin America, not only in Catholic Churches but also in the Protestant churches. He was also a pianist, poet, playwright, writer, sociologist, and university professor. Helga Rosado Loperena (niece)

Carmelo Erdozáin

b. 1939 Person Name: Carmelo Erdozain Hymnal Number: 309 Composer of "LIBERTADOR" in El Himnario

Clara Luz Ajo

Person Name: Clara Luz Ajo Lázaro Hymnal Number: 443 Composer of "CLARA LUZ" in El Himnario Dr. Clara Luz Ajo is professor of systematic theology at the Seminario Evangelico de Teologica in Matanzas, Cuba. FVS - from the Flickr account for the communications department of the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada (https://www.flickr.com/photos/general-synod/5429161260)