Bishop Abilio Martínez Varea

Bishop Abilio Martínez Varea was born on 29 January 1964 in Autol, La Rioja, in the diocese of Calahorra y la Calzada-Logroño. He was awarded a doctorate from the Universidad Pontifica de Salamanca (UPSA). He was ordained a priest on 30 September 1989. He has held the following offices: parish vicar in Aldeanueva de Ebro (1989-1994), parish vicar of San Pio X in Logroño, delegate for the Lay Apostolate and Education, professor at the Diocesan Institute of Religious Sciences, ecclesiastical assistant of CONCAPA, canon of the Chapter of the Co-cathedral of Santa María la Redonda, and since 2004, episcopal vicar for Pastoral Care and Education of the diocese of Calahorra y La Calzada-Logroño. On 5 January 2017 he was appointed bishop of the diocese of Osma-Soria, receiving episcopal consecration the following 17 March. Since 2022, he has served as president of the Las Edades del Hombre Foundation. Within the Spanish Episcopal Conference, he is a member of the Episcopal Commission for Education and Catechesis (2017-2020), member of the Episcopal Commission for Social Pastoral Care (2017-2020) and head of the Department of the Social Weeks of the Episcopal Subcommission for Charitable and Social Action (2020-2022), and since 2020, head of the Department of the Labour Pastoral Care of the Episcopal Subcommission for Charitable and Social Action.