Spanish religious men and women to elect their new presidencyThe General Assembly of CONFER yesterday elected this Dominican philosopher and Doctor of Theology as its new president for the next four years. Along with him, Lourdes Perramón, Superior General of the Oblate Sisters, OSR, is the new Vice-President of the Spanish Conference of Religious. The General Council has also been renewed with 4 new members: Lorenzo Maté, Benedictine Religious, Aurelio Cayón Díaz, Provincial Superior of the Sacred Hearts, SSCC, Fernando García Sánchez, Provincial of the Salesian Province of St. James the Greater, SDB, and Eva Mª Martínez, Carmelite Slave of the Holy Family, ECSF.
The Assembly, which ends today with the inauguration of the new presidential team and the presentation by Monsignor Carballo entitled "Synodality", began on the 3rd with the presence of the Apostolic Nuncio, Monsignor Bernardito Auza, the President of the CEVC, Monsignor Luis Ángel de las Heras and the former President of CONFER, María Rosario Ríos, ODN.
Jesús Díaz Sariego, OP
He has extensive experience as a university professor and since November 2017 was vice president of CONFER. He is a religious of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans), in which he made his first profession on September 11, 1983. He was ordained a priest in Salamanca on September 30, 1989. He studied Philosophy and Educational Sciences. He completed his bachelor's degree in Theology at the 'San Esteban' Theological Institute of Salamanca. He obtained a Licentiate in Theology at the Faculty of Theology in Friburg, where he also obtained his doctorate in Theology.
Lourdes Perramón
Lourdes Perramón is a native of Manresa. She made her first religious profession in 1990 in Madrid, combining in the following years her studies of Social Work, Theology and Anthropology with her work with women in contexts of prostitution. After some service in the Provincial animation team, she was elected in 2013 as Superior General, a service for which she was re-elected in 2019 and continues today.
