His Excellency, The Most Reverend Eduardo Alanis Nevares |
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Auxiliary Bishop of Phoenix Titular Bishop of Natchesium |
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The Most Reverend Eduardo Nevares, Auxiliary Bishop of Phoenix
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Church | Catholic Church |
Archdiocese | Sante Fe |
Diocese | Phoenix |
Appointed | May 11, 2010 |
Installed | July 19, 2010 |
Other posts | Titular Bishop of Natchesium |
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Ordination | July 18, 1981 by Bernard J. Ganter |
Consecration | July 19, 2010 by Thomas J. Olmsted, Michael Sheehan, and Álvaro Corrada del Río |
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San Antonio, Texas |
February 19, 1954
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Motto | SERVE THE LORD WITH GLADNESS |
Styles of Eduardo Alanis Nevares |
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Spoken style | Your Excellency |
Religious style | Bishop |
Eduardo Alanis Nevares (born February 19, 1954) is auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Phoenix, appointed by Pope Benedict XVI on May 11, 2010.
Eduardo Nevares was born in San Antonio, Texas, to Andres Valdes Nevares and Beatriz Alanis Tamez. The youngest of six children in a Mexican American family, he has one sister and four brothers, all of whom were born in Mexico. The family lived in Chicago, Illinois, before settling in Houston. Nevares received his early education at the parochial school of Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Houston. At age 14, he enrolled at La Salette Minor Seminary in Jefferson City, Missouri. The following year, when the seminary was closed, he was transferred to St. Henry Preparatory Seminary in Belleville.
Nevares continued his studies at La Salette Junior College Seminary in Altamont, New York, where he earned an Associate's degree in 1974. He attended the Missionary of Our Lady of LaSalette Philosophy Seminary in Ipswich, Massachusetts, for one year before entering St. Thomas University in Houston, where earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy in 1976. He entered the novitiate of the Missionaries of Our Lady of LaSalette in 1976, professing his first vows in 1977 and his final vows in 1980. He completed his theological studies at Kenrick Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, where he earned a Master of Divinity degree in 1981.