Oscar Solís | |
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| Bishop of Salt Lake City | |
_(cropped).jpg) Auxiliary Bishop Solis in 2011 | |
| Diocese | Salt Lake City |
| Appointed | January 10, 2017 |
| Installed | March 7, 2017 |
| Predecessor | John Charles Wester |
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| Orders | |
| Ordination | April 28, 1979 by Vicente Posada Reyes |
| Consecration | February 10, 2004 by Roger Mahony, Sam Jacobs, and Charles Michael Jarrell |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Oscar Azarcón Solís October 13, 1953 |
| Motto | Fiat voluntas tua (Thy will be done) |
| Styles of Oscar Azarcon Solis | |
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| Reference style | |
| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Bishop |
Oscar Azarcón Solís (born October 13, 1953) is a Filipino-American prelate of the Catholic Church who has served as Bishop of Salt Lake City since 2017. He was an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles from 2003 to 2017.
Solís is the first Filipino American Catholic bishop and the first Asian American to lead a Catholic diocese.[1] He speaks fluent English, Spanish, and Tagalog.
- ^ Robert E. Carbonneau (2021). "Asian-American Catholics". In McGuinness, Margaret M.; Rzeznik, Thomas F. (eds.). The Cambridge Companion to American Catholicism. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. p. 320. ISBN 978-1-108-47265-4. Retrieved April 14, 2022.