Oscar Azarcon Solis
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His Excellency, The Most Reverend Oscar Azarcon Solis |
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| Bishop of Salt Lake City | |
Bishop Oscar Solis at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, 2005
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| Archdiocese | San Francisco |
| Diocese | Salt Lake City |
| Appointed | January 10, 2017 |
| Installed | March 7, 2017 |
| Predecessor | John Charles Wester |
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| Ordination | April 28, 1979 |
| Consecration | February 10, 2004 by Roger Mahony, Sam Jacobs, and Charles Michael Jarrell |
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October 13, 1953 San Jose, Nueva Ecija Philippines |
| Previous post | Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles |
| Motto | FIAT VOLUNTAS TUA |
| Coat of arms | .svg) |
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Styles of Oscar Azarcon Solis |
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| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Bishop |
Oscar Azarcon Solis (born October 13, 1953) is a Philippine-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the bishop of the Diocese of Salt Lake City, Utah. Solis is the first Filipino-American to be consecrated a bishop. Pope Francis appointed him on January 10, 2017.
Solis speaks English, Tagalog and, Spanish.
The son of Antonia Azarcon and Anselmo dela Fuente Solis, Oscar Solis was born in San Jose City, Nueva Ecija, on October 13, 1953. He has three sisters and a brother Ronald Solis who is a priest in Hong Kong. He attended grade school at San Jose West Central School in San Jose, Nueva Ecija and high school at Maria Assumpta Minor Seminary in Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija. He prepared for the priesthood studying philosophy at Christ the King Seminary in Tagaytay City and theology at the Pontifical Royal Seminary of the University of Santo Tomas in Manila. He also pursued studies in Oriental Religions and Cultures.
Solis was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Cabanatuan on 28 April 1979 in San Jose. Between 1979 and 1984 he held a variety of diocesan posts, including rector of the minor seminary, secretary of the priests senate, school chaplain, and director of vocations. He emigrated to the United States in 1984 and served for four years as parish vicar at the Church of Saint Rocco in Union City, New Jersey, in the Diocese of Newark.
He relocated to Louisiana and was incardinated in the Houma-Thibodaux on 17 June 1992. He held several posts in parishes in that diocese between 1988 and 2003, including rector of St. Joseph Co-Cathedral.
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