Bishop of Barahona
Bishop Andrés Napoleón Romero Cárdenas was born on 24 July 1967 in Ramonal Arriba, diocese of San Francisco de Macorís, Dominican Republic. He holds a licentiate in letters and philosophy from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra in Santiago de los Caballeros, and a licentiate in biblical theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He was ordained a priest on 8 July 1995 for the diocese of San Francisco de Macorís. He has held the following offices: parish vicar, formator in the minor seminary, director of the diocesan Work for Priestly Vocations, professor, dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Theology, and formator at the Pontifical Major Seminary Santo Tomás de Aquino, and parish priest. He was appointed bishop of Barahona on 23 February 2015, receiving episcopal ordination the following 25 April.