New Regional Vicar
On June 11, the Prelate of Opus Dei, Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz, appointed Fr. Jorge Mario Jaramillo Echeverry, who will be in charge of promoting the apostolic work of Opus Dei in Colombia and Ecuador, countries that, from now on, make up a new circumscription. Similarly, Bishop Hernán Salcedo Plazas, who for more than 28 years was at the head of the Prelature in Colombia, will continue to contribute his experience as Vicar Secretary in this region.
Jorge Mario Jaramillo Echeverry (Cali, 1978), is the youngest of four siblings. Lawyer from the Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, 2001). Before priestly ordination, he lived in the cities of Cartagena and Barranquilla, working in a law firm. As of 2002, he moved to Bogotá to take charge of management tasks in the regional government of the Prelature in Colombia and joined the Universidad de la Sabana as a teacher and manager.
Later in 2011, he traveled to Rome to study theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross and received a doctorate in Dogmatic Theology (2015). He received priestly ordination from the hands of the Prelate Bishop Mons. Javier Echevarría on May 9, 2015.
He spent a few months in Seville, Spain, beginning his pastoral practices and returned to the country in December of that same year, to take charge of the apostolic work with university students at the Hontanar Cultural Center.
Since 2017, he had been serving as Vicar Secretary, helping Bishop Salcedo in the government of the apostolic work with the women of the Prelature in Colombia.
Learn more about this news at the following link: https://opusdei.org/es-co/article/nueva-circunscripcion-con-el-nombre-de-colombia-y-ecuador/
