Álvaro Corrada del Rio

Álvaro Corrada del Río, S.J. (born May 13, 1942) is a Puerto Rican prelate of the Catholic Church and member of the Society of Jesus.

Corrada served as the Bishop of Mayagüez from 2011 until his retirement in 2020. He previously served as Bishop of Tyler in Texas from 2001 to 2011, as apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Caguas from 1997 to 2001 and as an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Washington from 1985 to 1997. He served as the apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Arecibo from March to October 2022.

Biography

Early life Álvaro Corrada was born on May 13, 1942, in the Santurce section of San Juan, Puerto Rico. He has an older brother, Baltasar Corrada del Río, who served as Mayor of San Juan. After attending the local public schools, Álvaro Corrada entered the minor seminary of what was then the Diocese of San Juan in 1955.

In 1960, Corrada entered the Society of Jesus at their novitiate in Poughkeepsie, New York. After completing his initial period of formation and professing his initial religious vows to the Jesuits, he studied at Fordham University in Bronx, New York, and later Woodstock College in Woodstock, Maryland. After his ordination, Corrada went to Paris to study at the Catholic Institute of Paris.

After returning to the United States, Corrada he was assigned as the director of spiritual retreats at Mount Manresa Jesuit Retreat House on Staten Island, New York.

Apostolic Administrator of Arecibo In March 2022, Francis appointed Corrada as the apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Arecibo, following the ouster of Daniel Fernández Torres due to his refusal to resign. He ceased being apostolic administrator when Francis appointed Alberto Arturo Figueroa Morales as bishop.

Viewpoints

Tridentine Mass Corrada was one of the earliest proponents of the Tridentine Mass following the Second Vatican Council. Before the issuance of the apostolic letter Summorum Pontificum by Pope Benedict XVI, he was singled out in an article in The Wanderer as one of the few American bishops "...who have been generous in the Ecclesia Dei indult application, as requested and emphasized repeatedly by the late Pope John Paul II.