{"id":160165,"date":"2026-02-18T19:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/160165\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T19:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:01:07","slug":"new-bishop-arrives-in-south-florida-as-lent-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/160165\/","title":{"rendered":"New bishop arrives in South Florida as Lent begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA new era is beginning for the South Florida Catholic community.Stay up to date: The latest headlines and weather from WPBF 25The Diocese of Palm Beach shared a video of Bishop\u2011elect Manuel de Jes\u00fas Rodr\u00edguez arriving at Palm Beach International Airport, where he was greeted after landing in South Florida. He will be officially ordained next week. Rodr\u00edguez will take over for Bishop Gerald Barbarito, who is retiring after leading the diocese for 22 years.His arrival also comes on Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, when Catholics begin 40 days of reflection leading up to Easter. Get the latest weather updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it here.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tPALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A new era is beginning for the South Florida Catholic community.<\/p>\n<p>Stay up to date: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The latest headlines and weather from WPBF 25<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Diocese of Palm Beach shared a video of Bishop\u2011elect Manuel de Jes\u00fas Rodr\u00edguez arriving at Palm Beach International Airport, where he was greeted after landing in South Florida. He will be officially ordained next week. <\/p>\n<p>Rodr\u00edguez will take over for Bishop Gerald Barbarito, who is retiring after leading the diocese for 22 years.<\/p>\n<p>His arrival also comes on Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, when Catholics begin 40 days of reflection leading up to Easter. <\/p>\n<p>Get the latest weather updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/article\/get-wpbf-25-news-on-the-go\/999316\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new era is beginning for the South Florida Catholic community.Stay up to date: The latest headlines and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20298,76729,76728,52462,28,30,29,6686,58205,76726,5127,9097,1612,807,1045,221,76727,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-160165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-arrival","9":"tag-ash-wednesday","10":"tag-catholics","11":"tag-first-day","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-florida-headlines","14":"tag-florida-news","15":"tag-late-headline","16":"tag-lent","17":"tag-new-bishop","18":"tag-news-app","19":"tag-palm-beach","20":"tag-reflection","21":"tag-south-florida","22":"tag-video","23":"tag-weather","24":"tag-wpbf-25the-diocese","25":"tag-year"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}