Roberto Gonzalez Nieves
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The Most Reverend Roberto Octavio González Nieves O.F.M. |
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| Archbishop of San Juan | |
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| Archdiocese | San Juan |
| Appointed | March 26, 1999 |
| Installed | May 8, 1999 |
| Predecessor | Luis Aponte Martínez |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | May 8, 1977 by Lorenzo Michele Joseph Graziano |
| Consecration | October 3, 1988 by Bernard Francis Law, John O'Connor, and Luis Aponte Martinez |
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| Born |
June 2, 1950 Elizabeth, New Jersey |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Previous post |
Auxiliary Bishop of Boston Bishop of Corpus Christi |
| Alma mater |
Siena College Washington Theological Union |
| Motto | VITA PER JESUM |
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Styles of Roberto Octavio Gonzalez Nieves |
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| Reference style | The Most Reverend |
| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Archbishop |
Roberto Octavio González Nieves, O.F.M., is the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Puerto Rico and the current Archbishop of San Juan.
He received his elementary education at Academia Santa Monica in Santurce, a district of San Juan. For his secondary education, he attended St. Joseph Seraphic Minor Seminary in Callicoon, New York. He then studied at and graduated from Siena College in Loudonville, New York. Formally accepted as a candidate for the Franciscan Order at Christ House in Lafayette, New Jersey, in 1970, the following year he entered the novitiate of the Order at St. Francis Friary in Brookline, Massachusetts, where he professed his first vows in 1972. González earned the degree of Master of Sacred Theology at the Washington Theological Coalition (now Washington Theological Union) in Silver Spring, Maryland. He also holds a doctorate in Sociology from Fordham University. He authored The Hispanic Catholic in the United States: a Socio-Cultural and Religious Profile. He has received an honorary doctorate from the Graduate Theological Foundation in South Bend, Indiana.
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