Pope Francisco has named Reverend Santiago Rodríguez Rodríguez as the new bishop of the diocese of San Pedro de Macoris. Rodríguez served as episcopal vicar for the pastoral and was the parish for San Marcos.
His first ecclesiastical appointment was to the diocese of Puerto Plata in 2000. He studied moral theology at the Alfonsina Academy in Rome and received a Master’s in Bioethics from the Pontificio Ateneo Regina Apostolorum in Rome. He also studied at universities in Colombia and the DR. Since 2009, he has served as judge at the ecclesiastical court, military priest from 2007 and professor of bioethics at the PUCMM in Santo Domingo.
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7 November 2017