Bishop of Saltillo
Bishop Hilario González García was born on 19 June 1965 in Monterrey and was ordained a priest on 15 August 1995, incardinated in the metropolitan archdiocese of Monterrey. He was awarded a licentiate in theology at the Pontifical University of Mexico. He has held the following offices: spiritual director, prefect of studies of philosophy, and vice rector and rector of the Monterrey seminary. In the diocesan Curia he has held the role of promoter of ecumenism and inter religious dialogue, and has served as executive secretary of the Commission for Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue of the Episcopal Conference of Mexico. On 19 November 2014 he was appointed as bishop of Linares and received episcopal ordination on 22 January 2015.