Very Juarez

Rev. Rudolph T. Juárez is pastor of St. Patrick Parish in Iowa City, adjunct judge on the Marriage Tribunal and Vicar for Spanish-Speaking in the Diocese of Davenport. Fr. Juárez attended St. Ambrose College, the University of Iowa, entered Assumption Seminary in San Antonio, Texas and graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Latin American Studies from St. Mary’s University of Texas at San Antonio. He went on to graduate studies in Theology at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and graduated with a Masters of Divinity and was ordained a deacon for the Diocese of Davenport, Iowa, at St. Stephen Church, South Bend, Indiana, in 1979. In 1980, he was ordained a priest at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Davenport, and has served parishes in Davenport, Bettendorf, Muscatine and now Iowa City. He subsequently studied at the Pontifical University of Santo Tomaso (the Angelicum) in Rome, where he earned a license in Canon Law.