They appointed Monsignor Raúl Biord as archbishop of Caracas

• The Supreme Pontiff additionally appointed new archbishops for Valencia and Barquisimeto. Foremost picture: CELAM

Pope Francis has appointed Archbishop Raúl Biord Castillo as the brand new metropolitan archbishop of Caracas. The choice was confirmed on June 28 by the Venezuelan Episcopal Convention in a press launch.

Biord will succeed Cardinal Baltazar Porras, who has been archbishop of Caracas since January 2023 and can take over as archbishop emeritus, in response to the Archdiocese of Caracas.

Baltazar Porras is at present in Rome, Italy, as a member of the Fee for Latin America on the Vatican.

“We welcomed (Bishop Biord) with pleasure, hope, all of the individuals of Caracas. There’s nothing left however to say thanks,” Porras stated in a video printed by the Archdiocese of Caracas on its X account.

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Pope Francis has appointed this Friday, June 28, 2024, Msgr. Raúl Biord Castillo, present Bishop of the Diocese of La Guaira, because the seventeenth Archbishop of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Caracas

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— Archdiocese of Caracas (@ArquiCaracas) June 28, 2024

The Church reported that the Pope additionally appointed Monsignor Jesus Gonzalez de Zarate as Archbishop of Valencia, Carabobo state, and Monsignor Polito Rodriguez as Archbishop of Barquisimeto, Lara state.

Who’s Monsignor Raúl Biord?

Monsignor Raúl Biord was born in Caracas on October 23, 1962. He lived his childhood in San Antonio de Los Altos, Miranda state.

He’s at present the bishop of the Diocese of La Guaira, a place he has held since November 2013.

His first non secular career was as a Salesian in 1980 and his perpetual profession in 1987. On July 15, 1989 he was appointed as a priest in San Antonio de Los Altos.

He graduated in Philosophy (1990) and Basic Theology (1996) from the Pontifical Gregorian College in Rome. On the establishment he additionally obtained a doctorate in Sacred Theology (1997).

Throughout his profession he has been professor and rector of the Salesian Padre Ojeda College Institute (IUSPO) of Los Teques, professor of the Institute of Theology for Non secular (ITER) of Caracas and professor of the diocesan seminaries of Caracas, Maturín (Monagas) and Manaus (Brazil). ).

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He additionally served as parish vicar of San Juan Bosco de Los Teques; member of the Presbyteral Council of that metropolis; provincial vicar of the Salesian Society of San Juan Bosco in Venezuela (2004-2014); and secretary of the Pastoral Theological Fee of the Plenary Council of Venezuela (2000-2005).

Since 2015, Monsignor Biord has been a member of the Everlasting Fee of the Venezuelan Episcopal Convention.

The non secular additionally served as president of the Episcopal Fee for Doctrine and Ecumenism (2015-2018), second vp and common secretary of the identical Episcopal Convention (2018-2023) and delegate to the Latin American and Caribbean Episcopal Council (2022- 2023).

He was president of the Episcopal Fee of Ecclesiastical Circumscriptions (2023-2024), and is a member of the Nationwide Pastoral Institute (INPAS) and the Nationwide Pastoral Advisory Council.

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