2015-03-20 14:23:00

Pope nominates Auxiliary Bishop of Washington


(Vatican Radio)  Pope Francis has named Father Mario Dorsonville-Rodriguez, Vice President of Mission of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington, as auxiliary Bishop of Washington.

Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Bishop-elect Dorsonville was ordained in 1985 as a priest of the Archdiocese of Bogotá.

He served as an associate pastor, pastor and high school and university chaplain in Bogotá. He received his licentiate in sacred theology from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá in 1991, and a doctorate in ministry from The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC in 1995. While completing his doctorate, he assisted with Hispanic ministry at Good Shepherd and Christ the Redeemer parishes in Northern Virginia from 1992-1994.

He briefly returned to Bogotá to serve as chaplain for the National University of Colombia from 1995-1996. From 1997-2004, Fr. Dorsonville was associate pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes in Bethesda, MD. In 1999, he was incardinated as a priest of the Archdiocese of Washington and in 2004, was named parochial vicar of St. Mark in Hyattsville.

Since 2005, he has been Director of the “Spanish Catholic Center” and “Vice President for Mission of Catholic Charities” of the Washington Archdiocese , and since 2011, he is Adjunct Spiritual Director at the “Saint John Paul II Seminary” in Washington, D.C.

 








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