Carrara served as president of the Episcopal Commission of Cáritas Argentina. In Buenos Aires, he is pastoral vicar for the Emergency Villages.
Monsignor Gustavo Oscar Carraracurrent auxiliary bishop of the city of Buenos Aires, He was appointed by Pope Francis as archbishop of the archdiocese of La Platareported the Argentine Catholic Information Agency (AICA).
Carrara, 51, will assume that position after having recently been elected president of the Episcopal Commission of Cáritas Argentina. In Buenos Aires, he is pastoral vicar for the Emergency Villages, is a member of the team of village priests and was appointed bishop – in November 2017 – by Pope Francis.
The archdiocese of the capital of Buenos Aires includes the parties of Berisso, Ensenada, La Plata, Magdalena and Punta Indiowith an estimated population of 1,059,000 inhabitants, of which 85% profess the Catholic faith.
According to the Pontifical Yearbook, the archdiocese has 77 parishes, 137 priests, 7 permanent deacons, 84 major seminarians, 43 religious men, 350 nuns and 192 educational centers of the Church.
Born on May 24, 1973 in Buenos Aires, Carrara entered the metropolitan seminary Inmaculada Concepción in 1991. He studied at the Faculty of Theology of the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina (UCA) and was ordained as a priest on October 24, 1998.
He developed his pastoral career in vulnerable neighborhoods and Buenos Aires towns. He was vicar and parish priest at Nuestra Señora de Luján de los Patriotas, at the San Cayetano sanctuary, at the Immaculate Conception, at the Immaculate Virgin and at Santa Marí Madre del Pueblo.
In parallel, He was responsible for the archdiocesan commission for Youth Ministry, vice-advisor of the Archdiocesan Council of the Youth area of Argentine Catholic Action, responsible for Pastoral Care in the Emergency Villages, episcopal vicar for the Emergency Villages, member of the Presbyteral Council, and dean of the 20 Soldati Deanery.
On November 20, 2017, Pope Francis appointed him titular bishop of Tasbalta and auxiliary of Buenos Aires. He received episcopal ordination in the Buenos Aires Cathedral, on December 16, 2017, from the then archbishop of the archdiocese, Cardinal Mario Aurelio Poli.
Currently, Carrara serves as vicar general and episcopal vicar for the Pastoral of Villas and Education in Buenos Aires.
Source: Ambito
