Jorge Carlos Patrón Wong (born 3 January 1958) is a

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who worked in the

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as Secretary for Seminaries of the

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from 2013 to 2021, when he was appointed Archbishop of

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. He has been a bishop since 2009.

Biography

Jorge Carlos Patrón Wong was born in

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, on 3 January 1958. His maternal grandfather had emigrated to Mexico from China. He was ordained a priest by Manuel Castro Ruiz on 12 January 1988 for the Archdiocese of Yucatán. On 15 October 2009 he was appointed the coadjutor bishop of

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, and he was ordained a bishop on 15 December of that year by Archbishop

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, Apostolic Nuncio to Mexico. He succeeded Lorenzo Cárdenas Aregullín as bishop of the diocese on 2 May 2012.

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appointed him secretary of the Congregation for the Clergy on 21 September 2013 and made him a titular archbishop. He joked that his "Chinese features and Chinese blood" eased his communication with Asians in Rome. On 9 November 2013 he was made a member of the

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, on 29 July 2014 a consultor of the

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, and on 15 September 2015 a councilor of the

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. On 8 December 2021, Pope Francis named him Archbishop of

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