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Álvaro Corrada del Rio

His Excellency, The Most Reverend
Álvaro Corrada del Río
S.J.
Bishop of Mayagüez
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Bishop Álvaro Corrada del Rio, S.J.
Archdiocese San Juan
Diocese Mayagüez
Appointed July 6, 2011
Installed September 12, 2011
Predecessor Ulises Aurelio Casiano Vargas
Orders
Ordination July 6, 1974
by Miguel Rodriguez Rodriguez, C.Ss.R.
Consecration August 4, 1985
by Archbishop James Hickey, Thomas William Lyons, and Eugene Antonio Marino
Personal details
Born (1942-05-13) May 13, 1942 (age 75)
Santurce, Puerto Rico
Previous post Bishop of Tyler, Texas (2000–2011); Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Caguas (1997–2000); Titular Bishop of Rusticiana (1985–2000); Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. (1985–1997)
Motto NEMINEM NISI IESUM
(No one but Jesus)
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Álvaro Corrada del Río
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Spoken style Your Excellency
Religious style Bishop

Álvaro Corrada del Río, S.J., (born May 13, 1942) is a Puerto Rican prelate of the Roman Catholic Church and member of the Society of Jesus. He currently serves as the second and current Bishop of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. He previously served as the Bishop of Tyler, Texas.

Corrada was born in Santurce section of the City of San Juan. He has an older brother, Baltasar Corrada del Río, who served as Mayor of San Juan, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and as the Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, the non-voting representative of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to the United States House of Representatives. After attending the local public schools, he entered the minor seminary of the then Diocese of San Juan in 1955. In 1960 he entered the Society of Jesus, commonly known as the Jesuits, at their novitiate in Poughkeepsie, New York. After completing his initial period of formation and professing his initial religious vows in the Society, he then studied at Fordham University in the Bronx and later in Maryland.


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