Teachings of the Pope: For the Greater Glory of GodThe auxiliary bishop of Getafe succeeds Bishop Jose Mazuelos in the See of Asidon. Jerez was vacant after Bishop Mazuelos took office as bishop of the Canary Islands last October.
The Holy See announced at noon this afternoon the appointment of Msgr. José Rico Pavés as the new bishop of the Spanish diocese of Jerez de la Frontera.
The inauguration of Bishop Rico Pavés as Bishop of Jerez will take place on July 31 at 11:00 a.m. in the Cathedral of Jerez.
Rico Pavés has collaborated with Omnes on several occasions in both its print and digital versions with writings on Pope Francis, such as The gestures of Pope Francis o Teachings of the Pope: For the Greater Glory of God.
During the press conference held by the new bishop of Jerez, he said that during his teenage years he lived in Cadiz and there he lived "the time of the decisive questions".
Brief biography
Bishop José Rico Pavés was born on October 9, 1966 in Granada. He completed his ecclesiastical studies at the seminary of Toledo between 1985-1987 and 1989-1992. From 1987 to 1989 he followed a course in spirituality and another in ecclesiastical languages. He was ordained a priest on October 11, 1992. He holds a degree in Dogmatic Theology (1994) and a doctorate in Patristic Theology (1998) from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
He carried out his priestly ministry between Granada and Toledo, combining his pastoral work with teaching. At the time of his episcopal appointment, he was the director of the secretariat of the Episcopal Commission for the Doctrine of Faith of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, a position he held from 2001 to 2013.
He was appointed auxiliary bishop of Getafe on July 6, 2012 and received the episcopal consecration on September 21 of the same year at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in Cerro de los Angeles.
In the EEC he is in charge of the Catechumenate area of the Episcopal Commission for Evangelization, Catechesis and Catechumenate from March 2020.
