Ricardo RamÃrez
Ricardo Ramirez CSB ( born September 12, 1936 in Bay City ) is retired Bishop of Las Cruces.
Life
Ricardo Ramirez joined the religious order of the Congregation of St. Basil priests who professed stores on September 12, 1960 and received on 10 December 1966, the ordination.
Pope John Paul II appointed him on 27 October 1981 for the Auxiliary Bishop of San Antonio and Titular Bishop of Vatarba. He received his episcopal consecration of the Archbishop of San Antonio, Patrick Fernández Flores, on 6 December of the same year; Co-consecrators were John Louis Morkovsky, Bishop of Galveston - Houston, and Rafael Ayala y Ayala, Bishop of Tehuacán.
On August 17, 1982, he was appointed the first bishop of the diocese erected on the same date Las Cruces and introduced into the office on 18 October of the same year. On January 10, 2013, Pope Benedict XVI. its age-related resignation.