Our Clergy
Our Clergy
Clergy of the Diocese of Latin America
The clergy of the Diocese of Latin America serve the Church through episcopal leadership, sacramental ministry, pastoral accompaniment, evangelization, and the strengthening of ecclesial life across its provinces, communities, oratories, and centers of spiritual care.
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The Ministry of the Clergy
The clergy of the Diocese of Latin America sustain the visible life of the Church through worship, preaching, sacramental ministry, spiritual accompaniment, and pastoral care. Their work is carried not only in parish settings, but also through ecclesiastical provinces, missions, oratories, and centers dedicated to listening, formation, and outreach.
Within the life of the Diocese, clergy serve as shepherds, teachers, ministers of the sacraments, and companions to the faithful. Their ministry helps give concrete form to the Church’s mission in Mexico and Argentina and strengthens the Diocese in its apostolic and pastoral work.
Episcopal Leadership
The Right Rev. J. David Castro, SSI
Bishop of the Diocese of Latin America.
As diocesan bishop, he serves the Church through oversight, pastoral leadership, apostolic guidance, and the strengthening of the Diocese’s common life across its provinces, communities, and ministries.
The bishop’s ministry exists to preserve unity, strengthen the Church’s mission, and guide the faithful in worship, pastoral care, and ecclesial life throughout the Diocese.
Clergy in the Service of the Diocese
The Diocese’s clergy serve in a range of settings shaped by the pastoral reality of Latin America. Some labor in local communities of worship, others in missions or oratories, and others still in ministries of accompaniment, formation, and diocesan coordination.
Together, they help extend the Church’s presence beyond a single parish model and into a wider apostolic network of care, dialogue, teaching, and sacramental life.
Argentina
Clergy of the Episcopal Curia and “The Holy Name”
Argentina
The Diocese’s life in Argentina is closely connected to the Latin American Episcopal Curia and to the Oratory and Center for Spiritual Accompaniment “The Holy Name,” where pastoral care, prayer, accompaniment, and diocesan coordination are brought together.
Orders of Ministry
Bishops
Entrusted with apostolic oversight, unity, and the wider pastoral direction of the Diocese.
Priests
Serving in sacramental ministry, preaching, pastoral leadership, mission work, and the daily care of the faithful.
Deacons and Ministers of Service
Supporting the Church’s liturgical life, outreach, charitable service, accompaniment, and practical mission.
A Clergy Ordered to Accompaniment and Mission
The clergy of the Diocese of Latin America are called not only to preserve ecclesial order, but to accompany persons and communities with patience, mercy, clarity, and fidelity. Their ministry supports the Diocese’s wider calling to be a place of welcome, dialogue, sacramental life, and pastoral care.
Whether serving in a province, mission, oratory, parish, or center of spiritual accompaniment, the purpose remains the same: to proclaim the Gospel, celebrate the sacraments, strengthen the faithful, and make the Church present where people seek hope, truth, and reconciliation.
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