{"id":71522,"date":"2025-12-01T15:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T15:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/71522\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T15:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T15:41:09","slug":"pope-leo-xiv-accepts-resignation-of-bishop-mulvey-of-corpus-christi-names-bishop-aviles-as-successor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/71522\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV accepts resignation of Bishop Mulvey of Corpus Christi; names Bishop Avil\u00e9s as successor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Auxiliary Bishop Mario A. Avil\u00e9s of Brownsville, Texas, smiles during the fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore Nov. 12, 2019. Pope Leo XIV has accepted the resignation of Bishop Michael Mulvey, 76, of Corpus Christi, Texas, and appointed Bishop Avil\u00e9s as his successor. The appointment was publicized in Washington Dec. 1, 2025. (OSV News photo\/Bob Roller)<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 Pope Leo XIV has accepted the resignation of Bishop W. Michael Mulvey, 76, from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Corpus Christi, Texas, and has appointed Bishop Mario A. Avil\u00e9s, currently auxiliary bishop of Brownsville, Texas, as his successor.<\/p>\n

The resignation and appointment were announced in Washington Dec. 1 by Cardinal Christophe Pierre<\/a>, apostolic nuncio to the United States.<\/p>\n

Bishop Avil\u00e9s was born in Mexico City on Sept. 16, 1969. After attending the Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City, he obtained a bachelor\u2019s degree in philosophy and theology from the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome and a master of divinity from Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Cromwell, Connecticut.<\/p>\n

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He was ordained a priest on July 21, 1998, for the Confederation of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri.<\/p>\n

Bishop Avil\u00e9s served nearly two decades in parish ministry in Pharr and Hidalgo, Texas<\/a>, and later held leadership roles within the Oratory Academy and Oratory Athenaeum in Pharr, and the Confederation of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri, where he was procurator general between 2012 and 2018.<\/p>\n

Pope Francis<\/a> appointed him auxiliary bishop of Brownsville in 2017, and he was ordained a bishop the following year.<\/p>\n

The Diocese of Corpus Christi is comprised of 10,951 square miles in the State of Texas and has a total population of 582,684, of which 209,726, are Catholic.<\/p>\n

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