Montevideo, Uruguay, May 19, 2011 / 11:54 am
The bishops meeting at the 33rd General Assembly of Latin American Bishops elected a new council president on May 18.
Archbishop Aguiar Retes of Mexico succeeds the Brazilian Cardinal Raymundo Damasceno Assis as head of the Latin American bishops' council.
Archbishop Retes' term will run 2011 – 2015. He is also president of the Mexican bishops' conference.
The archbishop was born in 1950, in the Mexican cit of Tepic. He was ordained a priest in 1973 and was sent to Rome to study at the Pontifical Latin American College.