Jorge Rodríguez-Novelo

Jorge Humberto Rodríguez-Novelo (born March 22, 1955) is a Mexican-born American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, serving as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Denver since 2016.

Rodriguez-Novelo has held teaching positions at Catholic universities and institutions in the United States, Italy and Spain.

After finishing high school, he went to the Centre of Classical Humanities in Salamanca, Spain, to study Latin and Greek.

[3][2] Rodriguez-Novelo was ordained a priest in Rome at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe and St. Filippo Martire for the Legionaries of Christ by Cardinal Jean Hamer on December 24, 1987.

During this same period, Rodriguez-Novelo worked as a professor and dean of the Department of Theology at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolarum in Rome.

[3][2] In 2010, the diocese named Rodriguez-Novelo as an ex-officio member of the presbyteral council and as parochial vicar for Ascension Parish in Denver.

He assumed the roles of pastor in 2012 at Holy Cross Parish in Thornton, Colorado and professor in 2014 at St. John Vianney Seminary.