Gustavo García-Siller

Gustavo García-Siller (born December 21, 1956) is a Mexican American Catholic prelate who serves as archbishop of San Antonio in Texas. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago in Illinois from 2003 to 2010.

Biography Early life The eldest of fifteen children, García-Siller was born on December 21, 1956, in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. He entered the Missionaries of the Holy Spirit religious order in Mexico City in 1973. The Missionaries sent him to the United States in 1980 to minister to migrant workers in California. He also studied at St. John's Seminary in Camarillo, California, obtaining Master of Divinity and Master of Theology degrees.

Priesthood Garcia-Siller was ordained to the priesthood for the Missionaries on June 22, 1984. The Missionaries then assigned him as an associate pastor at St. Joseph Parish in Selma, California until 1988.

Returning to the United States in 1990, Garcia-Siller was named as rector of the Holy Spirit Missionaries' houses of studies in Lynwood and Long Beach, California, and in Portland, Oregon.

In 1999, Garcia-Siller was appointed rector of the Missionaries' theologate in Oxnard, California, also serving pastoral roles in three parishes of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. The Missionaries named him as superior of their vicariate for the United States and Canada in 2002.