Pope Francis appointed Mons. Gustavo Adolfo Rosales Escobar, until now Guayaquil Auxiliary Bishop, as the new Bishop of San Jacinto in Ecuador.
“The bishops of Ecuador are happy for this news and at the same time, we deeply thank Monsignor Aníbal Nieto, OCD, for all his work and pastoral dedication in this ecclesiastical jurisdiction,” said Ecuadorian prelates in their Facebook account.
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“We pray for Monsignor Gustavo, for the Lord to guide him in this new mission,” they add.
The elected bishop of San Jacinto happens in office to Mons. Nieto, almost 76, whose resignation was accepted by Pope Francis also this Friday. According to the Code of Canon Law, the Law of the Catholic Church, the prelates must present their resignation to the Holy Father when they turn 75; And it is he who decides whether he accepts it or not.
Who is the new bishop of San Jacinto in Ecuador?
Mons. Gustavo Adolfo Rosales Escobar is the new bishop of San Jacinto in Ecuador. He was born on August 26, 1964 in Valparaíso (Chile). He is 60 years old.
He studied philosophy at the Valparaíso Seminar. He arrived in Cuenca (Ecuador) to study law. Then he entered the San León Magno Seminar in Cuenca, where he studied theology.
He was ordained a priest on October 26, 1991 and was incardinated in the Archdiocese of Cuenca, where he was a parish priest of different parishes, as well as professor and rector of the seminar where he studied.
He has also been director of the diocesan publication “Domingo del Lord” and vice president of the Organization of Seminars of Ecuador (OSEC).
He was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Guayaquil on June 3, 2022.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.