Abbot and Most Rev. Bernardo Morales Biographical Information
Bernardo Morales was born in Ecuador, South
America. His first years were spent in his birth city of Guayaquil. At the age
of fourteen years old, he entered the minor seminary, where he took his first
steps into consecrated living. The Bishop continued his studies
at the Pontifical Catholic University of San Gregorio, where he took his first
philosophy courses which he continued at Arequipa, Perú.
Then he continued his theological studies in
Spain at the San Carlos Borromeo Seminary located in Málaga and in the San Juan
de Dios in Madrid. He completed his theological studies at the Saint Thomas
Aquinas College in Sparhill, NY and went on to earn a Doctor of Ministry degree
from Lake Charles Bible College in Lake Charles, Louisiana in the Year of Our
Lord 2005.
On June 10th, 1986 Morales was ordained to
the order of Deacon at the Tagaste Monastery located in NY and continued there
until his Presbyter ordination on May 13, 1992. He was consecrated to the
Episcopal order at the Sts. Perpetua y Felicidad located in St Cloud, Florida on
March 29th, 1998 by the Most Reverend Bishop David Strong, the Most Reverend
Robert Bowman and the Most Reverend John Reeves.
Presently he can be found serving as a
Bishop at the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Cathedral of Sts. Perpetua and
Felicidad, and as the Abbot of the Subiaco monastery Benedictines monks of the
Divine Infant Jesus in St Cloud, Florida. Bishop Morales ministry and that of
the Order he leads are active in working for the Hispanic community in Florida.
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