Bishop of La Guaira
Bishop Pablo Modesto González Pérez, S.D.B., was born on 30 June 1959 in San Antonio de los Altos, diocese of Los Teques, Venezuela. He was awarded a bachelor of science in Venezuela, a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the Salesian Pontifical University of Rome, a licentiate in education from the Universidad Nacional Experimental Simón Rodríguez in Caracas and a licentiate in pastoral theology from the Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Spain. He gave his perpetual vows on 3 September 1983 and was ordained a priest on 26 July 1986. He has held the following offices: parish vicar and bursar of San Francisco de Sales in Caracas (1986-1995), parish priest and local superior of San Juan Bosco in Valencia-Venezuela (1995-2002), provincial counsellor (2000-2006), parish priest and local superior of San Francisco de Sales in Caracas (2002-2005), parish priest and local superior of San Juan Bosco in Los Teques (2005-2008), and director of the Don Bosco Agricultural Centre in El Molinete in the archdiocese of Maracaibo (2010-2015). On 3 December 2015 he was elected first bishop of Guasdualito, receiving episcopal ordination on 6 February 2016. The prelate is a member of the Permanent Commission of the Episcopal Conference, as well as chair of the Episcopal Commission for Culture and Cultural Heritage.