Overview

• The Spanish Episcopal Conference confirmed on June 27, 2025, that José Antonio Satué will succeed Jesús Catalá as bishop of Málaga.
• He is set to take possession of the Málaga diocese at a September 13 ceremony in the cathedral.
• Satué, 57, has served as bishop of Teruel and Albarracín since 2021 and spent two years working in the Vatican’s Dicastery of Bishops alongside Pope Leo XIV.
• Aligned with Pope Francis’s line, he served as a judge in a canonical probe against an Opus Dei priest accused of sexual abuse.
• He takes over after Jesús Catalá, who resigned at age 75 in December 2024 after a severe septicemia following bladder and prostate surgeries this spring.