Background
Corrada was born in Santurce section of the City of San Juan.
Corrada was born in Santurce section of the City of San Juan.
After completing his initial period of formation and professing his initial religious vows in the Society, he then studied at Fordham University in the Bronx and later Woodstock College in Maryland.
He currently serves as the second and current Bishop of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. He previously served as the Bishop of Tyler, Texas. He has an older brother, Baltasar Corrada del Río, who served as Mayor of San Juan, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and as the Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, the non-voting representative of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to the United States House of Representatives.
After attending the local public schools, he entered the minor seminary of the then Diocese of San Juan in 1955.
Corrada was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop of Arecibo Miguel Rodriguez Rodriguez, C.Ss.R., on July 6, 1974. He then furthered his studies at the Catholic Institute of Paris in France and, returning to the United States, served as the director of spiritual retreats at Mount Manresa Retreat House on Staten Island, New New York
Bishop
On May 31, 1985, Corrada was appointed as an auxiliary bishop of Archdiocese of Washington, District of Columbia, with the titular title of Bishop of Rusticiana, by Pope John Paul World War II He received his episcopal consecration the following August 4 from Archbishop James Hickey of Washington, District of Columbia, with Bishops Thomas Lyons and Eugene Marino, South.S.J., serving as co-consecrators, at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. He selected as his episcopal motto: Neminem nisi Iesum (Number one but Jesus).
Corrada was later named Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Caguas in Puerto Rico, on July 5, 1997.
He was appointed the third Bishop of Tyler, Texas, on December 5, 2000, and was installed as such on January 30, 2001. He was transferred by Pope Benedict XVI to the office of Bishop of Mayagüez on July 6, 2011, where he was installed the following September. Positions
Corrada was one of the earliest proponents of the Tridentine Massachusetts
Before the issuance of the Apostolic Letter, Summorum Pontificum by Pope Benedict, he was singled out in an article in The Wanderer, a traditionalist Catholic periodical, as one of the few American bishops "..who have been generous in the Ecclesia Dei indult application, as requested and emphasized repeatedly by the late Pope John Paul World War II" The others being pointed out were Archbishop Raymond Burke of Saint Louis, Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska.
And Bishop Thomas Doran of Rockford, Illinois.
