Ordination of 31 Priests: Live Transmission

On Saturday April 29, this website will offer a live broadcast of the ordination of 31 priests in the basilica of Saint Eugene in Rome, at 4 pm Rome time (10 am New York time). Live commentary will be provided in English.

The transmission can be accessed from the link: https://opusdei.org/live and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/opusdei.eng/ .

Although the ceremony will be in Latin and Italian, live commentary will be provided in English and Spanish.

The celebrant will be Cardinal Giuseppe Bertello, president of the Governorate of the Vatican City State. The Prelate of Opus Dei, Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz, will take part in the ceremony from the presbytery.

The future priests' names are listed below (they make some statements here).

  • Alejandro Pardo Fernández (Spain)
  • Etienne Montero Redondo (Belgium)
  • Andrés Echevarría Escribens (Peru)
  • Giovanni Manfrini (Italy)
  • Erwin See (Philippines)
  • Álvaro Ruiz Antón (Spain)
  • Javier Ruiz Antón (Spain)
  • Rafael Peró Baig (Lebanon)
  • Salvador Rego Bárcena (Canada)
  • Carlos Aníbal Valencia Ospina (Colombia)
  • Diogo da Cunha e Lorena de Brito (Portugal)
  • Francisco José Chapa Sancho (Spain)
  • Luigi Vassallo (Italy)
  • Pablo Rojo Mardones (Spain)
  • Martin Mundia Gikonyo (Kenya)
  • Álvaro René Villamar Rosales (Guatemala)
  • Álvaro Javier Mira García (Spain)
  • Alexander Vaz Serrano (Spain)
  • Santiago Callejo Goena (Spain)
  • Joseph Frederick Keefe (United States)
  • Daniele Guasconi (Italy)
  • Francisco Javier Bordonaba Leiva (Spain)
  • Phillip Joseph Elias (Australia)
  • John Paul Watson (Australia)
  • Rafael Alejandro Quintero Pérez (Venezuela)
  • António Maria Braga Dias Alves Mendes (Portugal)
  • Benjamín Goldenberg Ibáñez (Chile)
  • Gerard Jiménez Clopés (Spain)
  • Dante Parado Estepa Jr. (Philippines)
  • Adam Andrzej Sołomiewicz (Poland)
  • Ricardo Guillermo Bazán Mogollón (Peru)