Eusebio Ramos Morales
Eusebio Ramos Morales was born December 15, 1952, in Maunabo, Puerto Rico. He studied philosophy and theology at Bayamón Central University, then completed formation at St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary in Boynton Beach, Florida, and at the Gregorian University in Rome. He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Caguas on June 3, 1983. As a priest he served as spiritual director and rector of the Seminario Conciliar de San Ildefonso in Caguas.
On March 11, 2008, Pope Benedict XVI named him the first bishop of the newly erected Diocese of Fajardo-Humacao; he was consecrated and installed on May 31, 2008, by Archbishop Roberto González Nieves. He led that eastern-Puerto-Rico see until 2017 and afterward served as its apostolic administrator (2017-2020). His episcopal motto is Fiat mihi secundum verbum Tuum ('Let it be done to me according to Your word').
Pope Francis appointed him Bishop of Caguas on February 2, 2017, succeeding Rubén Antonio González Medina, CMF; he was installed on February 26, 2017, as the fourth bishop of Caguas, and he remains the sitting ordinary as of mid-2026. His tenure has been dominated by disaster response and reconstruction (Hurricanes María and Fiona, earthquakes, and the collapse of the island's power grid) and by a pastoral program centered on family, diocesan unity, and social solidarity.
Bishop Ramos Morales has essentially no traceable record on the Traditional Latin Mass. The crux question -- whether he has restricted or permitted the older rite under Traditionis Custodes -- appears to be moot in his diocese: no Traditional Latin Mass is documented anywhere in the Diocese of Caguas. Public traditional-Mass listings for Puerto Rico place the island's approved TLMs only in the Archdiocese of San Juan and the Diocese of Arecibo, with no Caguas venue. There is no FSSP, ICKSP, or SSPX apostolate identified in Caguas, consistent with the broader reality that Puerto Rico has essentially no institute-of-tradition footprint.
Because there was no diocesan TLM community to govern, Ramos Morales has had no occasion to issue a Traditionis Custodes decree, and none is on record. This distinguishes him from Bishop Ángel Luis Ríos Matos of Mayagüez, who is the one Puerto Rican ordinary with a documented TC-based prohibition; that action belongs to a different bishop and a different diocese and should not be attributed to Ramos Morales.
We therefore record a thin, essentially blank slate rather than a stance. His public profile is that of a disaster-era pastor focused on hurricane and earthquake recovery, cathedral reconstruction, family ministry, diocesan unity, and social advocacy on the power grid and the vulnerable -- not liturgical politics. He should not be listed as a friend of Tradition (there is no documented support) nor as an opponent (there is no documented restriction). The honest verdict is: no documented action for or against the traditional Mass.