First Filipino-American Bishop to lead diocese
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has named an auxiliary bishop
of Los Angeles - Oscar Azarcon Solis – as the tenth Bishop of Salt Lake City,
United States.
Bishop Solis will be the first Filipino-American Bishop to
lead a Diocese in the United States.
He said: “It’s a beautiful thing to receive the appointment.
It’s a recognition of the diversity of the Church in America and the
universality of the Church. It is a tremendous blessing and a responsibility
and a privilege to be of service to the local Church in the United States of
America, coming from the Philippines.”
Bishop Solis was born October 13, 1953 in San Jose, Nueva
Ecija, Philippines.
He attended the Christ the King Seminary of the Society of
the Divine Word, Tagaytag City, to study philosophy and the Pontifical
Royal Seminary at the University of Saint Thomas in Manila for his theological
studies.
Bishop Solis was ordained a priest on 28 April 1979 for the
Diocese of Cabanatuan and served as chaplain to a number of organisations, as
Prefect of Seminary Studies and as Diocesan Vocations Director.
In 1984, he emigrated to the United States and until 1988 he
was a Parochial Vicar in the Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey. Later, he was
incardinated into the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux, Louisiana, in 1992, where he
served in four different parishes.
Bishop Solis was named as an auxiliary bishop for the
Archdiocese of Los Angeles and was ordained on February 10, 2004. He was the
first Filipino-American bishop ordained in the United States.
In 2009 he was named Episcopal Vicar for the San Pedro Region
and has served on the Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs at the US
Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Bishop Solis will be officially installed at the Cathedral
of the Madeleine, Salt Lake City, on Tuesday, March 7.
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