Daniel Ernesto Flores | |
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Bishop of Brownsville | |
See | Diocese of Brownsville |
Appointed | December 9, 2009 |
Installed | February 2, 2010 |
Predecessor | Raymundo Joseph Peña |
Orders | |
Ordination | January 30, 1988 by René Henry Gracida |
Consecration | November 29, 2006 by Adam Maida, Edmond Carmody, and René Henry Gracida |
Personal details | |
Born | Palacios, Texas, US | August 28, 1961
Previous post(s) | Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit (2006–2010) |
Education | University of Texas at Austin Holy Trinity Seminary University of Dallas Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas |
Motto | Verbum mittitur spirans amorem (The word is sent breathing forth love) |
Styles of Daniel Ernesto Flores | |
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Reference style | |
Spoken style | Your Excellency |
Religious style | Bishop |
Daniel Ernesto Flores (born August 28, 1961) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He has been the Bishop of Brownsville in Texas since December 2009. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit in Michigan from 2006 to 2009.
Daniel Flores was born on August 28, 1961, in Palacios, Texas, to Fernando and Lydia Flores, [1] His parents came Zapata, Texas,with roots on both sides of the US-Mexico border.Daniel Flores has two brothers, Billie and Javier, and one sister, Teresa. [2]
Shortly after Flores' birth, his family moved to Corpus Christi, Texas. He graduated from Flour Bluff High School in Corpus Christi in 1979, and then studied at the University of Texas at Austin for two years. After deciding to enter the priesthood, Flores in 1981 entered Holy Trinity Seminary in Irving, Texas. [1] He then enrolled at the University of Dallas in Dallas, obtaining a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1983 and a Master of Divinity degree in 1987. [1] [2]
Flores was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Corpus Christi by Bishop René Gracida at Corpus Christi Cathedral on January 30, 1988. [2] [3]
After his 1988 ordination, the diocese assigned Flores as parochial vicar at Corpus Christi Cathedral Parish. Between 1992 and 1997, he also served as private secretary and master of ceremonies to Gracida, vice-chancellor of the diocese, rector of the St. John Vianney House of Studies, and episcopal vicar for vocations. [4] The Vatican raised Flores to chaplain to his holiness in September 1995. [1]
In 1997, Bishop Roberto Nieves sent Flores to Rome by to further his studies. In 2000, Flores received a Doctor of Theology degree from Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. After Flores returned to Corpus Christi, Nieves named him as chancellor of the diocese. [2]
In August 2001, the diocese assigned Flores as a professor of theology at the University of St. Thomas in Houston and formation director at St. Mary's Seminary in Houston. He was promoted to vice-rector of St. Mary's in 2002. [4] Flores left Houston in 2006 to become rector of Corpus Christi Cathedral Parish. [1]
On October 28, 2006, Flores was appointed as auxiliary bishop of Detroit and titular bishop of Cozyla by Pope Benedict XVI. [5] He received his episcopal consecration on November 29 2006, from Cardinal Adam Maida, with Bishops Edmond Carmody and René Gracida serving as co-consecrators. [6] His episcopal motto, taken from the Summa Theologica , is: Verbum Mittitur Spirans Amorem ("The Word Is Sent Breathing Forth Love"). [7] Flores became the first Hispanic bishop in Detroit. [8]
On December 9, 2009, Benedict XVI appointed Flores as bishop of Brownsville, succeeding Bishop Raymundo Peña. [9] Flores was installed on February 2, 2010. [7] On November 16, 2020, Flores was elected to head the Committee on Doctrine of the USCCB. [10]
On June 12, 2019, Flores addressed the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) regarding the policies of the Trump Administration towards undocumented immigrants on the US-Mexico border. [11]
“I feel that as a (bishops’) conference, we must express ourselves more strongly when it comes to the dignity of immigrants, to say that they are not criminals, that they are vulnerable families and we need to invite all the governments involved, not just the U.S., to defend the migrant as a human being, to not cast the person aside as someone who doesn’t matter and is a problem,” [11]
After the 2022 mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, Flores released the following tweet:
Don’t tell me that guns aren’t the problem, people are. I’m sick of hearing it. The darkness first takes our children who then kill our children, using the guns that are easier to obtain than aspirin. We sacralize death’s instruments and then are surprised that death uses them. [12]
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