Background
Roberto Garrido Padin was born into a Spanish family.
Roberto Garrido Padin was born into a Spanish family.
He was consecrated bishop by Manoel Ceia Laranjeira on 2 May 1989 at Salvador de Bahia. Garrido Padin reached the attention of the world media in 2002 as having been the Principal Consecrator, in 1998, of the Argentine bishop Rómulo Antonio Braschi of the Catholic Apostolic Charismatic Church of “Jesus the King”, who controversially attempted to "ordain" the group of women known as the Danube Seven into the Roman Catholic priesthood.