Juan Miguel Betancourt

Juan Miguel Betancourt, S.E.M.V. (born June 1, 1970, in Ponce, Puerto Rico) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who has been serving as auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Hartford in Connecticut since 2018.

Biography

Early life Juan Miguel Betancourt was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico on June 1, 1970, to Miguel and Gloria Betancourt. He is the oldest of three children. Betancourt joined the Society of the Servants of the Eucharist and Mary on January 1, 1992, and took perpetual vows to the order on August 6, 2000.

Betancourt graduated with a Bachelor of Natural Sciences degree from the University of Puerto Rico and received a Master of Divinity degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico in Ponce. (Esclavos de la Eucaristia y de Maria Virgen). Following his ordination, Betancourt went to Rome to study at the Pontifical Biblical Institute, earning a Licentiate in Sacred Scripture in 2005. After returning to Puerto Rico, he taught at the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico and the Regina Cleri Major Seminary, both in Ponce, for one year. He was consecrated on October 18, 2018, at the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Hartford by Archbishop Leonard Blair, with Archbishop Timothy Broglio and Bishop Andrew H. Cozzens as co-consecrators.

In January 2026, he accepted the appointment to serve as the USCCB Bishop Liaison for the next Synod on Synodality and is the Chair of the USCCB Synod Implementation and Evaluation Task Force. The Synod will take place during the Vatican assembly in October 2028.

Betancourt has been a member of the Trinity Health of New England Board of Directors since 2019.