{"id":71924,"date":"2025-12-01T20:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/71924\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T20:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:50:08","slug":"former-brownsville-auxiliary-bishop-named-9th-bishop-of-the-catholic-diocese-of-corpus-christi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/71924\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Brownsville auxiliary bishop named 9th bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Corpus Christi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.krgv.com\/videos\/former-brownsville-auxiliary-bishop-named-9th-bishop-of-the-catholic-diocese-of-corpus-christi\/mailto:cgarcia@krgv.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Claudia Garcia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The now former auxiliary bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Brownsville has a new job.<\/p>\n<p>Mario Aviles was chosen by the Pope to be the bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Corpus Christi, making him the ninth bishop.<\/p>\n<p>The Pope announced his appointment on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Aviles was first named the auxiliary bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Brownsville in 2018. He gave a speech in Corpus Christi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you from the bottom of my heart for welcoming me with such warmth,&#8221; Aviles said. &#8220;A special word of thanks goes to Bishop Daniel Flores of Brownsville, my bishop for these past years. He welcomed me as a new bishop and counseled me with wisdom and loved me as a true brother. Whatever good I may be able to offer you today is owed under God in very large part to him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The appointment by Pope Leo comes after the former bishop resigned.<\/p>\n<p>News<\/p>\n<p>The now former auxiliary bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Brownsville has a new job.<br \/>\nMario Aviles was chosen&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.krgv.com\/news\/former-brownsville-auxiliary-bishop-named-9th-bishop-of-the-catholic-diocese-of-corpus-christi\" class=\"read-more\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 hour ago<\/p>\n<p>Monday, December 01 2025<\/p>\n<p>Dec 1, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Monday, December 01, 2025 1:22:00 PM CST<\/p>\n<p>December 01, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By: Claudia Garcia The now former auxiliary bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Brownsville has a new job.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-71924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}