{"id":78376,"date":"2025-12-06T11:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T11:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/78376\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T11:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T11:24:11","slug":"former-brownsville-auxiliary-bishop-named-9th-bishop-of-the-catholic-diocese-of-corpus-christi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/78376\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Brownsville auxiliary bishop named 9th bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Corpus Christi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fRO82YoN3eMNo0-FYTAwpwCouW2duJ0IBQ3cDEKzUsyWCn7rdpJuqg-BHebSDPlOlVdHwWLYnMpCuXpncuVZEyniHZtcZMxD9HWA.jpeg\" alt=\"Former Brownsville auxiliary bishop named 9th bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Corpus Christi\" style=\"display: none;\"\/><\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The now former auxiliary bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Brownsville has a new job. Mario Aviles was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[38534,36041,35973,38532,38530,17124,155,38529,157,156,38528,38531,1473,1472,38533],"class_list":["post-78376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-9th-bishop","tag-auxiliary-bishop","tag-bishop-daniel-flores","tag-bishop-resignation","tag-brownsville-diocese","tag-catholic-church","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-diocese","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-mario-aviles","tag-pope-appointment","tag-rgv","tag-rio-grande-valley","tag-texas-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78376","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=78376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}