Eduardo Nevares
Eduardo Alanis Nevares was born on February 19, 1954, in San Antonio, Texas, the youngest of six children of a devout Mexican American family; his one sister and four brothers were all born in Mexico. His parents met singing in the church choir, his father served as a church usher, and his mother gathered the children after dinner to pray the family Rosary. Her love for the Eucharist, the diocese says, inspired his priestly vocation when he was only four or five years old, an early call he has never disowned.
He served for twenty-five years as a Missionary of Our Lady of La Salette and was ordained a priest on July 18, 1981. He was co-director of vocations in the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, from 2002 until 2008, and was incardinated into the Diocese of Tyler in 2007. From 2009 to 2010 he was vice rector of the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, Ohio, helping to administer priestly formation and to teach Spanish to college seminarians.
Pope Benedict XVI named him an auxiliary bishop of Phoenix on May 11, 2010, and he was consecrated on July 19, 2010, at St. Thomas Aquinas Parish in Avondale, becoming the first auxiliary bishop in the diocese's history and its first Hispanic bishop. In Phoenix his work has centered on cultural diversity and ethnic ministry as liaison to more than twenty ethnic communities, on Catholic education as a board member of Catholic Education Arizona since 2011, and on ecumenism, including a term as president of the Arizona Ecumenical Council from 2012 to 2014. His episcopal motto is Serve the Lord with gladness.
Bishop Nevares has been a Phoenix auxiliary since July 2010, so he served under Bishop Olmsted when Traditionis Custodes arrived in July 2021 and under Bishop Dolan after 2022. The governing acts of that period in Phoenix are Olmsted's: the July 2021 decree allowing the 1962 Missal Mass to continue under his dispensation and his later designation of parishes for it. No decree, permission, dispensation request, or appointment of Nevares's own on the 1962 Missal was found.
The nearest thing to personal involvement is his December 11, 2021, blessing of the refurbished St. Edward the Confessor Church and his homily at the Solemn High Mass that unveiled it as a second church of the FSSP parish of Mater Misericordiae. That is recorded openly in this dossier, but under the project rules it cannot move posture: attendance, praise, and a blessing are not authorization, and the provision blessed was the ordinary's.
No site count is asserted for Nevares's own record. The diocesan provision is described in prose from December 2021 reporting, and that reporting's counts are not carried forward as a 2026 figure. What the evidence shows is a long-serving auxiliary who stood visibly beside the traditional community once, without ever governing its provision, which is no_record.