Josep Maria Mauri

Josep Maria Mauri i Prior ( b. 1941 in Alzina de moror, Pallars Jussà ) is a Spanish Roman Catholic priest, vicar general and episcopal vicar for Economic Affairs of the Diocese of Urgell and personal representative of the Bishop of Urgell Joan Enric Vives i Sicília in its capacity as Kofürst of Andorra and thus representative of the episcopal head of state of the Principality of Andorra.

Career

Mauri was born in 1941 in Alzina de moror in the Pallars Jussà. In 1965 he was ordained a priest. He studied philosophy and theology at the seminary in Urgell and licentiate of Church History of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, and Licentiate of the Faculty of Arts in the Department of History at the University of Barcelona.

He then spent five years as Vicar of Andorra la Vella and also had other ecclesiastical functions held.

From 1994 to 2002 he was Managing Director of the Caritas Association of the Diocese of Urgell. From 1997 to 2003 he was pastor and archpriest of Tremp.

Since 2003 he has been Vicar of the Diocese of Urgell and Treasurer, canons in La Seu d' Urgell, a member of the Church Council and the Board of Directors in Urgell and officer of the diocese of Urgell for the cultural heritage.

In 2010 he became vicar general of the diocese and deputy personal representative of the bishop as Kofürst of Andorra. On July 20, 2012, he took over the office of personal representative of the previous incumbent Nemesi Marqués Oste.