Vatican City, 29 December 2014 (VIS) –
The Holy Father has appointed Fr. Angel Javier Perez Pueyo as bishop
of Barbastro-Monzon (area 8,321, population 101,320, Catholics
95,127, priests 96, permanent deacons 3, religious 171), Spain. The
bishop-elect was born in Ejea de los Caballeros, Spain in 1955 and
was ordained a priest in 1980. He holds a licentiate in philosophy
and science of education from the Civil University of Salamanca,
Spain. He has served in a number of roles, including formator and
professor in the seminaries of Tarragona and Salmanca and member of
the Central Council of the Fraternity of Working Diocesan Priests and
pastoral coordinator of the same Fraternity. He has collaborated in
courses for formators in various seminaries in Latin America and in
those organised by the Episcopal Commission of Seminaries of the
Spanish Episcopal Conference. He is currently rector of the “San
Jose” Pontifical Spanish College in Rome. He succeeds Bishop
Alfonso Milian Sorribas, whose resignation from the pastoral care of
the same diocese upon reaching the age limit was accepted by the Holy
Father.
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