Pope Francis appointed Father Fernando Daniel Rodríguez as the new Auxiliary Bishop of Lomas de Zamora, located in the southwest area of Greater Buenos Aires, in his native Argentina.
Lomas de Zamora is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires. Its current bishop is Mons. Jorge Rubén Lugones.
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The Press Office of Vatican reported this Thursday that the bishop-elect currently serves as parish priest of the Nuestra Señora de Luján church, in the Diocese of San Carlos Bariloche.
On your page Facebookthe Diocese of San Carlos Bariloche points out that the appointment “is a loss” for the diocese, but “a great joy for the entire Church.” “We are very happy for Father Fernando and grateful for his ministry among us. (…) We pray for your new mission!”, he adds.
Who is the new Auxiliary Bishop of Lomas de Zamora in Argentina?
As pointed out AICAFather Fernando Daniel Rodríguez was born on November 10, 1970 in Río Cuarto, Córdoba. You are 53 years old.
In 1990, he entered the Immaculate Conception Metropolitan Seminary of Buenos Aires; and in 1996 he obtained a bachelor’s degree in Theology from the Argentine Catholic University.
He was ordained a priest on October 25, 1997. Between that year and 2003 he was parochial vicar of the Sanctuary of San Cayetano in Liniers.
In March 2003 he was sent as a priest the gift of faith (who does not exercise his ministry in the jurisdiction to which he belongs, with the permission of his bishop), to the Diocese of San Carlos de Bariloche, where he was parish priest in several parishes: Sagrado Corazón in Los Menucos (2003-2010), María Auxiliadora in Pilcaniyeu (2011) and San José in Dina Huapi (2011-2023).
From 2014 to 2023 he served as vicar general of the Diocese of San Carlos de Bariloche.
In addition, he was a member of the College of Consultants and the Presbyteral Council; vice president of diocesan Cáritas, member of the Commission for complaints of abuse against minors and head of the School for the permanent diaconate, among other positions.
Since 2023 he worked as parish priest of Nuestra Señora de Luján in El Bolsón.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I have been a husband since 2008. My wife and I have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before he was born. Since I joined ACI Prensa in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Cologne, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and of Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the Family synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Synodality, in 2023. I closely follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers persecution from the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as current ecclesiastical events in the region.