VATICAN CITY (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV has accepted the resignation of  Archbishop Roberto O. González Nieves of San Juan, Puerto Rico, and named as his successor, Bishop Eusebio Ramos Morales of Caguas, Puerto Rico.

Archbishop González, 76, has headed the San Juan Archdiocese since 1999. His successor, who is 73, has headed the Caguas Diocese since 2017.

The resignation and appointment were announced at the Vatican Aug. 6.

Born Dec. 15, 1952, in Maunabo, Puerto Rico, Archbishop Ramos was ordained a priest  on June 3, 1983. He was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Fajardo-Humacao, Puerto Rico, in March 2008, and nine years later Pope Francis appointed him to head the Diocese of Caguas.

Archbishop González submitted his resignation to the pope when he turned 75 on June 2, 2025, as required by canon law.

Born in New Jersey to Puerto Rican parents and raised in Puerto Rico, he was ordained a Franciscan priest on May 8, 1977. A former Boston auxiliary bishop, he was bishop of Corpus Christi, Texas, when St. John Paul II appointed him as San Juan’s archbishop on March 26, 1999. He was installed on May 8 of that year.

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