Pbro. Germán Marín assumes as Diocesan Administrator of El Vigía – San Carlos del Zulia

Father Germán Antonio Marín Artigas has assumed the role of diocesan administrator for the Diocese of El Vigía–San Carlos del Zulia. The College of Consultors elected Marín to guide and protect the local Church during the current period of a vacant see while the Holy See prepares to appoint a new bishop.

The diocese presented Marín during a press conference led by Father Cecilio Vergara, the jurisdiction's media official. Vergara noted Marín's pastoral experience serving the presbyterate and the people in the Sur del Lago and Panamerican regions.

Marín began his priesthood as a parochial administrator in San José de La Blanca in 1991 and served as diocesan chancellor from 1994 to 1995. After serving as pastor in Tucaní, he earned a license in pastoral theology from the Pontifical Lateran University. His previous roles include serving as pastor of Nuestra Señora del Perpetuo Socorro in El Vigía, vicar of pastoral ministry, and director of diocesan Caritas between 2002 and 2003.