Roberto Octavio González Nieves OFM (born June 2, 1950) is an American Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico since 1999.

[3] From 1957 to 1964 he attended Academia Santa Monica in Santurce, a district of San Juan, and then began his priestly formation at St. Joseph Seraphic Minor Seminary in Callicoon, New York, from 1964 to 1968.

[4] González was accepted as a candidate for the Franciscans at Christ House in Lafayette, New Jersey, in 1970 and he entered the novitiate of the Order at St. Francis Friary in Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1971.

[8][better source needed] On May 16, 1995, González was appointed coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Corpus Christi in Texas by John Paul II.

[10] He served on two committees of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops: Hispanic Affairs and the Church in Latin America.

Jesse Jackson at an interfaith prayer service in East Harlem in New York City, where he preached in Spanish on themes of Puerto Rican nationalism and anti-colonialism.

[19] He submitted confidential reports that included claims González had mishandled cases of priests accused of sexual abuse and sold Catholic school property without authorization.

[18] As González awaited the results of the investigation, the bishops of Puerto Rico demonstrated their confidence in him by electing him the president of their conference in December 2012.

[19] In August, Wesolowski was removed as apostolic delegate[17] and the failure of the Vatican to credit his claims against González was thought to explain his departure.

[20][28] Power's remains arrived in San Juan on April 6, 2013; González called the transfer "a boost to our identity" and a moment of clarification for Puerto Rico.

[29] By then González could count on support from his friend, the newly elected Pope Francis,[30] and on May 18 the Congregation for Divine Worship told him it had no objection to moving Power's remains into the cathedral.

Despite periodic false reports of action on the part of the Vatican or Pope Francis, the archdiocese has not confirmed that the process has begun.

[38] A close ally of Chicago's Cardinal Blase Cupich, González Nieves was reported as being behind the removal of Arecibo bishop Daniel Fernández Torres over a statement he had issued on coronavirus vaccines, as well as his decision not to send seminarians to the island's inter diocesan seminary and disagreements over a 2018 lawsuit involving the archdiocese.