Pope Leo's Pick for West Virginia Bishop Came to US Illegally From El Salvador [View all]

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Pope Leo XIV’s pick for bishop of West Virginia was a Salvadoran man who entered the country as an illegal immigrant when he was just a teenager.

On Friday, Pope Leo named Evelio Menijar-Ayala as the state’s only Catholic bishop. News of the appointment was announced by reporter Christopher Hale, who runs the Substack “Letters from Leo.”

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A 2024 report from Catholic Standard added more context to Menjivar-Ayala’s difficult journey to get into the U.S. and eventually earn citizenship, saying:

The future bishop had arrived in the United States at the age of 18 as an undocumented immigrant, and after applying for asylum and gaining a work permit and later a green card, he became a U.S. citizen in 2006. In his first job, he worked as a receptionist at a law firm in Los Angeles. For the first time, he received a paycheck for his work, and like many immigrants, he began sending money back home to El Salvador to help his family there.

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