{"id":1519402,"date":"2026-06-30T15:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T20:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1519402"},"modified":"2026-06-30T15:55:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T20:55:21","slug":"tyler-priest-ordained-bishop-of-laredo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1519402","title":{"rendered":"Tyler priest ordained Bishop of Laredo"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"LAREDO – John Gomez, a Tyler-based priest, was ordained and installed as the Second Bishop of Laredo on Tuesday after being appointed by the Vatican in May. Gomez was ordained a deacon on May 24, 2008, and a priest for the Diocese of Tyler on May 23, 2009, by Bishop \u00c1lvaro Corrada del R\u00edo. <\/p>\n

\u201cHis experience in diocesan administration as Judicial Vicar and Vicar General, his experience in parish ministry, and his commitment to Hispanic Ministry will serve him well in his new ministry as the second Bishop of Laredo,\u201d Diocese of Tyler Bishop Gregory Kelly said in May. \u201cI am also grateful to Bishop-elect Gomez for his help to me over this last year as a new bishop in Tyler and will miss his presence and ministry.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LAREDO – John Gomez, a Tyler-based priest, was ordained and installed as the Second Bishop of Laredo on Tuesday after being appointed by the Vatican in May. Gomez was ordained a deacon on May 24, 2008, and a priest for the Diocese of Tyler on May 23, 2009, by Bishop \u00c1lvaro Corrada del R\u00edo. \u201cHis … Continue reading Tyler priest ordained Bishop of Laredo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1519403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 17:06:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1519402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1519404,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519402\/revisions\/1519404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1519403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1519402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1519402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1519402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}