DDG Companion News | July 31, 2015

The Rev. Moisés Quezada Mota, Bishop Coadjutor-elect of the Diocese of the Dominican Republic, with Bishop Holguín in Epiphany Cathedral on July 25, 2015. An album of photographs from this election is available here.
Moisés Quezada Mota Elected Bishop-Coadjutor
On July 25, 2015, the delegates to a special convention of the Diocese of the Dominican Republic elected the Rev. Moisés Quezada Mota as their Bishop Coadjutor. The text of an article by the Episcopal News Service about this election is below:

[Episcopal News Service, July 27, 2015] The Rev. Moisés Quezada Mota has been elected as bishop coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of the Dominican Republic, pending the required consents from a majority of bishops with jurisdiction and standing committees of the Episcopal Church.

 

Quezada, 58, rector of Jesus Nazareno and Good Samaritan mission churches in San Francisco de Macoris, was elected on the second ballot out of a field of four nominees.

 

He received 23 votes of 35 cast in the lay order and 29 of 48 cast in the clergy order. An election on that ballot required 19 in the lay order and 25 in the clergy order.

 

The election was held July 25 during the diocese's extra-ordinary convention at The Cathedral Church of the Epiphany in Santo Domingo.

 

Pending a successful consent process, Quezada will succeed the Rt. Rev. Julio Cesar Holguin upon his retirement.

 

Under the canons (III.11.3) of The Episcopal Church, a majority of bishops exercising jurisdiction and diocesan standing committees must consent to Quezada's ordination as bishop coadjutor within 120 days of receiving notice of the election.

 

Biographical information on the bishop coadjutor-elect [in Spanish] is here.

 

Pending the required consents, Quezada will be ordained and consecrated as the bishop coadjutor of the Diocese of the Dominican Republic in February 2016 in Santo Domingo. The bishop coadjutor will serve with Holguin until his retirement, which according to The Episcopal Church's Constitution (Article II, Section 1) must take place within 36 months of the consecration of the bishop coadjutor.

 

The other nominees were the Rev. P. Salvador Patrick Ros Suarez, 59, rector, Church of the Good Shepherd, Rahway, New Jersey, Diocese of New Jersey;  the Rev. Ramon Antonio Garcia De Los Santos, 50, vicar of Misiones San Lucas and La Anunciacion in Santiago, a school principal and archdeacon in the north region of the country; and the Rev. Daniel Samuel, 58, vicar of Misiones Santa Maria Virgen, Divina Gracia and San Cornelio, and a school principal.

 

The original ENS article is available here.

 
The Rev. Quezada and the DDG
 

As a part of the search and nomination process, each candidate was asked to comment on several questions. One of those questions was about the relationship between the Diocese of the Dominican Republic and the Dominican Development Group. The Rev. Quezada wrote the passage below as his answer to that question:

 

El GDD ha sido una gran bendición para la Diocesis. Gracias a este organismo se han podido construir muchos de nuestros templos e

instituciones. Tenemos el Fondo Foca y recibimos el apoyo y acompañamiento de las Diócesis Compañeras. Nuestro Ministerio y

Mision en la República Dominicana está intimamente relacionado con el GDD. Por tanto es de suma importancia en la visión de la

Diócesis y en particular del Obispo. Visión que está encaminada a la expansión y la autosuficiencia sostenida Diocesana. Creo que de ser favorecido como Obispo continuaremos

fortaleciendo las relaciones de las Diócesis Compañeras y su organismo de unidad y ejecución que es el GDD, siempre teniendo en

carpeta los proyectos más prioritarios para ser presentados e indicar programas que ambos, tanto el GDD y la Diócesis pueden desarrollar.

Mantener la Oficina en la Florida para la promocion de las relaciones.


 English translation: The DDG has been a blessing for the Diocese. Many of our churches and institutions have been built thanks to this organization. We have the FOCA [endowment] fund and we receive the support and companionship from our Companion Dioceses. Our ministry and mission in the Dominican Republic is intimately related with the DDG. So, it has great importance in the Diocese's and particularly in the Bishop's vision, which is a vision aimed to the expansion and the sustainable economic self-sufficiency of the Diocese. I think that in the case of being chosen as bishop, we will continue to strengthen the relationships with our Companion Dioceses and their uniting body, the DDG, always keeping on agenda priority projects to be presented and to indicate programs that both, the DDG and the Diocese, may be able to develop. Keep the office in Florida for promoting of relations.

 
Contact the DDG:
Office: (813) 400-2722 | Fax: (813) 983-5082
Executive Director: Bill Kunkle | bkunkle@dominicandevelopmentgroup.org
PO Box 272261 | Tampa Florida 33688-2261

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