Father Jaime Paniagua: Brief Biography of New Pastor at Saint Joseph Church in Del Rio, Texas
Father Jaime Paniagua: Brief Biography of New
Pastor at Saint Joseph Church in Del Rio, Texas
Father Jaime Paniagua was born and raised in
Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico, on October 25, 1975. He is the oldest of three
children, he has two younger sisters.
He entered the Congregation of the Legionaries
of Christ in Mexico on September 14, 1995. He did his two years of Novitiate in
Dublin, Ireland, studied humanities in Cheshire, Connecticut, and for three
years was part of the formation team in the novitiate of the Legion of Christ
in Medellin, Colombia.
He was ordained a priest in Rome on December 20, 2008.
He has a Master’s Degree in Philosophy from the
Pontifical Regina Apostolorum College in Rome. While in Rome, Father Jaime
worked at the Vatican as personal secretary for Mexican retired Cardinal Javier
Iozano Barragan.
In 2011, he moved to Washington, DC where he earned a Masters
Degree in Clinical Psychology, and helped in Regnum Christi retreat house in
Bethesda, Maryland.
He worked in campus ministry at the Legions Anahuac
University in Mexico City from 2013 - 2016. He has also served as Chaplain and
Professor for several communities of Regnum Christi Lay Consecrated Women.
His formation and missionary work has been all
over the world; Ireland, the United States, Columbia, Italy and Mexico.
He arrived in the Archdiocese of San Antonio on
June 29, 2017 and was Parochial Vicar of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Selma,
Texas for one year.
Father Jaime arrived in Del Rio, Texas on July
1, 2018 to serve as Pastor at Saint Joseph Church.
He was ordained a priest in Rome on December 20, 2008.
In 2011, he moved to Washington, DC where he earned a Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology, and helped in Regnum Christi retreat house in Bethesda, Maryland.
He worked in campus ministry at the Legions Anahuac University in Mexico City from 2013 - 2016. He has also served as Chaplain and Professor for several communities of Regnum Christi Lay Consecrated Women.