José Rico Pavés

José Rico Pavés (9 October 1966) is a Spanish Catholic clergyman, and since 9 June 2021 the Bishop of Jerez de la Frontera.

Biography He was born in Granada on 9 October 1966.

Priesthood and ministry He completed his ecclesiastical studies in Toledo from 1985 to 1992, and continued his studies between 1987 and 1989, attending a course in spirituality and another in classical languages. He received episcopal ordination on the following 21 September in the basilica of Cerro de los Ángeles by the bishop of Getafe Joaquín María López de Andújar y Cánovas del Castillo, co-consecrating Cardinal Antonio María Rouco Varela, metropolitan archbishop of Madrid, and the metropolitan archbishop of ToledoBraulio Rodríguez Plaza. He took control of the diocese on the following 31 July.

Within the Spanish Episcopal Conference, he has been head of the catechumenate of the commission for evangelism since March 2020 and head of the same commission since April 2022. Previously he was a member of the commission for the doctrine of the faith from 2012 to 2014, a member of the subcommittee for catechesis from 2014 to 2017, and a member of the commission for education and catechesis from 2014 to 2020.

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