Overview
- The Vatican named Rodríguez the sixth bishop of the Diocese of Palm Beach on Friday, and he was introduced at a diocesan news conference.
- Bishop Gerald M. Barbarito becomes Bishop Emeritus and will serve as Apostolic Administrator until the bishop-elect is ordained and installed.
- Rodríguez currently leads Our Lady of Sorrows Parish in Corona, Queens, and holds senior juridical posts in the Diocese of Brooklyn.
- Born in the Dominican Republic, he was ordained in Santo Domingo in 2004, incardinated into Brooklyn in 2012, and is fluent in English, Spanish, Italian and French.
- He is expected to oversee about 260,000 Catholics across 54 parishes and missions in the Palm Beach diocese.