Pope Leo XIV names Mario León Dorado coadjutor archbishop of Rabat

Pope Leo XIV appointed Mario León Dorado as coadjutor archbishop of the Archdiocese of Rabat on September 12. Dorado, a member of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, previously served as the apostolic administrator of the archdiocese.

Born in Madrid on March 16, 1974, Dorado studied computer science before earning a theology degree from the San Dámaso Faculty of Theology in Madrid. He entered the Oblates of Mary Immaculate in 1996 and was ordained a priest on June 2, 2001. After serving as a parochial vicar in Jaén, Spain, from 2000 to 2004, he began missionary work in the Apostolic Prefecture of Laayoune-Sahara. He served as apostolic administrator there from 2009 to 2013 and became prefect in 2013.