The Meteoric Rise of Barcelona’s New Archbishop
- Pope Leo XIV appointed Bishop Octavi Vilà Mayo of Girona as Barcelona’s new archbishop, succeeding Cardinal Juan José Omella.
- Vilà entered Poblet Monastery in 2005, was ordained a priest in 2015, and became Bishop of Girona in 2024.
- Vilà is scheduled to take office on December 19.
- Omella will retire to a priests’ residence in Zaragoza.
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The meteoric rise of Barcelona’s new archbishop
In the year 2000, the new Archbishop of Barcelona was a layman working in a newspaper archive in Tarragona, a port city in Spain’s Catalonia region.Bishop Octavi Vilà Mayo, pictured in February 2024. Credit: Screenshot from the @BisbatGirona YouTube channel.Octavi Vilà Mayo, who was then in his late thirties, became involved that year in the Germandat de Poblet, a lay association connected with Poblet monastery, a Cistercian community at the foo…
The Bishop of Girona will be presented in public on Tuesday, November 24 at a press conference Other: Omella: “A communication that polarizes us can feed violence”
As this newspaper advanced in its day, the Holy See has made official this morning the designation of the so far bishop of Gerona, Octavi Vilà Mayo, as a new archbishop...
The Pope appoints the current bishop of Girona, Octavi Vilà Mayo, as the new head of the Archbishopric of Barcelona, replacing Juan José Omella Barcelona was one of the ten dioceses pending episcopal relief, just as Cadiz and Ceuta
Vilà was ordained a priest only a decade ago and has been bishop of Gerona for two years. Experts also point out him as the candidate for...
Both will appear today separately to announce the relief
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