Jorge Rodríguez-Novelo

Jorge Humberto Rodríguez-Novelo (born March 22, 1955) is a Mexican-born American Catholic prelate who has served as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Denver in Colorado since 2016. He has held teaching positions at Catholic universities and institutions in the United States, Italy and Spain.

Biography

Early life Jorge Rodriguez-Novelo was born on March 22, 1955, in Mérida, Mexico. He is the son of Nery Maria Novelo and Ramon Rodriguez, and has one brother and four sisters. Jorge Rodriguez-Novelo attended a Maryknoll Sisters primary school and then a Marist Brothers high school, both in Mérida. After finishing high school, he went to the Centre of Classical Humanities in Salamanca, Spain, to study Latin and Greek. After returning to Mexico, Rodriguez-Novelo performed missionary work in Chetumal in the Yucatán region.

Deciding to become a priest, Rodriguez-Novelo then entered the novitiate period for the Legionaries of Christ religious order. On April 2, 1982, he took his solemn vows in the Legionaries of Christ.

The Legionaries sent Rodriguez-Novelo to Rome to study at the Pontifical Gregorian University, where in 1984 he received a Licentiate in Philosophy. After starting his bachelor's degree studies at the Angelicum University in Rome, he was named as an academic assistant of philosophical studies at the Center for Higher Studies of the Legionaries of Christ in Rome. On November 4, 2016, he was consecrated by Archbishop Samuel Aquila at the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Denver, with Cardinal James Stafford and Archbishop José Horacio Gómez serving as co-consecrators.