Jorge Carlos Patrón Wong


Jorge Carlos Patrón Wong is a Mexican archbishop who works in the Roman Curia as Secretary for Seminaries of the Congregation for the Clergy.

Biography

Jorge Carlos Patrón Wong was born in Mérida, Yucatán on January 3, 1958. He was ordained a priest by Manuel Castro Ruiz on January 12, 1988 for the Archdiocese of Yucatán. On October 15, 2009 he was appointed the coadjutor bishop of Papantla, and was ordained a bishop on December 15 of that year. He succeeded Lorenzo Cárdenas Aregullín as bishop of the diocese on May 2, 2012. He was appointed secretary of the Congregation for the Clergy on September 21, 2013 and concomitantly made an archbishop ad personam.
He is of Chinese descent, although he does not speak Cantonese or Mandarin.