Rivera Jose Garibi

Background

Garibi, Rivera Jose was born on January 30, 1889 in Guadajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Son of Miguel and Joaquina (Rivera) Garibi.

Education

Educated Seminario Menor (Guadalajara), Pontifical Latin American College (Rome). Doctor of Theology, Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, 1916.

Career

Ordained priest, Guadalajara, 1912. Teacher and prefect of discipline Seminario Menor, 1911-1913. Assistant vicar, Totatiche parish, 1916.

Teacher Seminario Auxiliar, 1916.

Assistant vicar, parishes of Atotouilco el Alto and Jess, 1917. Chaplain Church of Nuestra Senora del Carmel and official of ecclesiastical court, 1917.

Canon of the cathedral, 1924. Chancellor of ecclesiastical court, 1925.

Titular bishop of Rosso and assistant bishop, Guadalajara, 1929.

Dean of cathedral and vicar general, 1933. Titular arch-bishop of Bizya and assistant to bishop, Guadalajara, 1934. Became archbishop of Guadalajara, 1936.

Achievements

• Rivera Jose Garibi has been listed as a noteworthy archbishop. by Marquis Who's Who.