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After Nine Years Without Ordinations, Argentine Diocese Has a New Priest. Here’s His Story

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The call to a vocation began to take shape when at age 15 he visited a terminally ill patient with leukemia at a hospital in the city of Cinco Saltos along with a parish priest.

After nine years without priestly ordinations, the Diocese of Alto Valle de Río Negro in Argentina on May 1 celebrated the ordination of Father Alexis Oser, 27.

Bishop Alejandro Benna of Alto Valle presided over the ordination ceremony, which took place at the cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in General Roca, the city where the new priest will carry out his ministry.

The last ordination for the diocese was that of Father Vicente Alberto Bó in 2014, who died in 2021 from COVID-19.

Father Oser’s mother works in a hospital as an orderly and his father is retired from the oil industry. He has two siblings, and although his background is Catholic, his family was not practicing the faith.

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Is that typical of the Church in Latin America? Why are there so few priests?
There is a decline of practicing Catholics and a big increase of Evangelical Churches there where they concentrate on slums with a big emphasis on word of faith. Many have left for that or simply stopped practicing Faith all together.
 
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