José Manuel Romero Barrios

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José Manuel Romero Barrios (born April 9, 1955 in Pariaguán ) is a Venezuelan clergyman and Roman Catholic bishop of El Tigre .

Life

José Manuel Romero Barrios was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Barcelona on December 1, 1979 .

Pope Benedict XVI appointed him on February 2, 2012 auxiliary bishop in Barcelona and titular bishop of Materiana . The Bishop of Barcelona, César Ramón Ortega Herrera , gave him episcopal ordination on April 14th of the same year ; Co- consecrators were Jorge Liberato Cardinal Urosa Savino , Archbishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela , and Diego Rafael Padrón Sánchez , Archbishop of Cumaná .

Pope Francis appointed him on May 31, 2018 as the first bishop of the diocese of El Tigre , which was established on the same date .

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Individual evidence

  1. erezione della diocesi di El Tigre (Venezuela) e nomina del primo Vescovo. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , May 31, 2018, accessed May 31, 2018 (Italian).