José Rico Pavés (9 October 1966) is a Spanish Catholic clergyman, and since 9 June 2021 the Bishop of Jerez de la Frontera.

[1] During that time, he translated two patristic works of St. Gregory the Great for Editorial Ciudad Nueva, a publishing house.

He was later a coadjutor vicar in a parish in Granada; an adjunct professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University from 1996 to 1998; served as a theology professor and faculty in several universities; worked for the parish of San Tommaso in Toledo from 2001 to 2012; director of the secretariat for the faith and ecumenism of the archdiocese of Toledo from 2005 to 2012 and director of a theological institute from 2008 to 2012.

[1][2] He was also a visiting professor at the Leo XIII Institute of Social Doctrine of the Church in Madrid and at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Navarre and a member of the Association of Patrologists of the East and West of the Pro Oriente Foundation.

[1][3][4] He received episcopal ordination on the following 21 September in the basilica of Cerro de los Ángeles by the bishop of Getafe Joaquín María López de Andújar y Cánovas del Castillo, co-consecrating Cardinal Antonio María Rouco Varela, metropolitan archbishop of Madrid, and the metropolitan archbishop of ToledoBraulio Rodríguez Plaza.