José Rodríguez Carballo
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José Rodríguez Carballo OFM |
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| Secretary of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life | |
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| Appointed | 6 April 2013 |
| Predecessor | Joseph William Tobin |
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| Ordination | 28 June 1977 |
| Consecration | 18 May 2013 by Tarcisio Bertone |
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| Birth name | José Rodríguez Carballo |
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11 August 1953 Lodoselo (Sarreaus), Spain |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
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| Motto | Scio cui enim credidi (English: "I know whom I have believed) |
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José Rodríguez Carballo OFM (born 11 August 1953) is a Catholic archbishop and official of the Roman Curia. On 6 April 2013, he was named secretary for the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. He had previously served as General Minister of the Order of Friars Minor from 2003.
José Rodríguez Carballo was born on 11 August 1953 in Lodoselo (Sarreaus), Spain. He entered the Minor Seminary of the Franciscan Province of Santiago de Compostela in Zamora in 1964. The next year he studied at the seminary Herbón, A Coruña. He made his novitiate at the Convent of Ponteareas, concluding with his profession of temporary vows on 9 August 1971.
He moved to Jerusalem in 1973 where he continued his theological studies, earning a BA in 1976. He made his solemn profession of vows on 8 December 1976 in the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth and was ordained a priest on 28 June 1977 in Jerusalem at the Church of San Salvatore.
Beginning in 1976 he attended the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum of Jerusalem, earning a degree in biblical theology in 1978. He then enrolled at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in 1981 and obtained a degree in sacred scripture.
He returned to the religious province of Santiago de Compostela, where he was Master of postulants and treasurer. In 1989 he became Rector of the Guardian and Convent of St. Francis in Santiago de Compostela and Master of the Friars of temporary profession. He was a professor of Sacred Scripture at the Diocesan Seminary of Vigo from 1982 to 1992, and at the Center for Theological Studies of Santiago de Compostela from 1985 to 1992 he taught the Theology of Consecrated Life.
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