The Theatine Parish of Saint Gaetano in Rome, Cardinal Titular Church
We are pleased to announce that next Saturday, November 16, His Eminence Diego Rafael CARDINAL Sánchez will assume the role of titular of the parish church of Saint Gaetano in Rome. Since its construction, the parish of Saint Gaetano has been under the responsibility of the Theatine Regular Clerics, who have overseen the pastoral and spiritual care of this part of God’s people for the past seven decades. Currently, Father Umberto Micillo, CR, leads the parish as pastor, always accompanied by the Theatine community, collaborators, and lay faithful.
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Cardinal Diego Rafael Padrón Sánchez, Archbishop Emeritus of Cumaná (Venezuala), was born in Montalbán, May 17, 1939.
He completed his secondary studies at the Minor Seminary in Valencia and his priestly studies in Caracas at the Santa Rosa de Lima Interdiocesan Seminary, earning a Baccalaureate in Philosophy and Letters.
He studied Group Dynamics and Youth Ministry at the Central de Juventudes in Bogotá-(Colombia). He holds a degree in Biblical Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and a diploma in Oriental Biblical Sciences from the “Franciscanum” Institute in Jerusalem, Israel.
He is a professor of Spanish, literature and Latin, a graduate of the Professional Institute of Teaching at the Pedagogical Institute in Caracas.
He served as Professor of Latin and Biblical Greek at Nuestra Señora del Socorro Seminary in Valencia; Biblical Theology at the University Seminary Institute of Caracas (IUSI) in the years 1983 – 1994; and Philosophy of Language and Philosophy of History at San Pablo Apóstol Major Seminary in Maturín.
He was ordained a priest on August 4, 1963. He has been pastor in several parishes in Valencia.
Pope John Paul II appointed him auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Caracas and titular bishop of Gisipa, being consecrated on May 27, 1990, in Caracas Cathedral.
On May 7, 1994, John Paul II appointed him Bishop of the Diocese of Maturín.
On May 27, 2002, Holy Father John Paul II appointed him Metropolitan Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Cumaná.
He was President of the Venezuelan Bishops’ Conference for two consecutive periods.
He is currently pastor of La Inmaculada de Camoruco in the Archdiocese of Valencia, Venezuela.
By Pope Francis created and published Cardinal in the Consistory of September 30, 2023 of the Title of Saint Gaetano.
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