Ryan Pagente Jimenez
Ryan Pagente Jimenez was born December 18, 1971, in Dumaguete, Negros Oriental, in the Philippines, and grew up on the island of Siquijor. He studied at San Jose Major Seminary of the Ateneo de Manila University and completed theological formation at Saint Patrick's Seminary in Menlo Park, California. He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Chalan Kanoa in the Northern Mariana Islands on June 8, 2003. His episcopal motto is 'Volumus Iesum videre' (We would like to see Jesus).
Pope Francis appointed Jimenez Bishop of Chalan Kanoa on June 24, 2016; he was consecrated August 14, 2016. He became a leading figure among the Pacific hierarchy, elected president of the Episcopal Conference of the Pacific (CEPAC) in November 2023 and vice president of the Federation of Catholic Bishops' Conferences of Oceania in May 2024. He is the first Filipino-born prelate to lead the Church in Guam.
On July 6, 2024, Pope Francis appointed Jimenez the fourth Archbishop of Agana (Agaña), Guam. He was installed August 15, 2024, the Solemnity of the Assumption, at the Dulce Nombre de Maria Cathedral-Basilica in Hagatna, succeeding Archbishop Michael J. Byrnes (who resigned in March 2023 due to Alzheimer's and died May 30, 2025). As of mid-2026 Jimenez sits as the reigning Archbishop of Agana, inheriting an archdiocese still recovering from a devastating clergy sexual-abuse crisis and Chapter 11 bankruptcy that unfolded under his disgraced predecessor Anthony Apuron.
There is no evidence of any regular, established Traditional Latin Mass in the Archdiocese of Agana. The only traceable instance is a Tridentine sung Mass celebrated in Agana Heights in November 2012, offered with the permission of the archbishop of that time -- under Anthony Apuron, and nearly a decade before Traditionis Custodes. No FSSP, ICKSP, or SSPX apostolate, chapel, or Mass site has been located anywhere in Guam or the Marianas. Published archdiocesan Mass schedules through late 2025 list only the ordinary form.
Archbishop Jimenez has issued no Traditionis Custodes decree, no restriction, and no permission or liturgical policy on the older rite that can be found in the public record. This is unsurprising: with no standing TLM community in the archdiocese, there is effectively nothing for such a decree to regulate. His entire early governance has been consumed by the abuse-recovery mandate -- trust, healing, and financial stability -- rather than the liturgy wars that define other dioceses.
The honest verdict is that Jimenez has a thin-to-nonexistent record on the traditional liturgy, in either direction. He has neither promoted nor publicly suppressed it. He should not be counted a friend of Tradition on the strength of a single pre-TC Mass permitted by a predecessor, nor an enemy absent any hostile act. This is a too-early-to-judge case: watch for whether, as the archdiocese stabilizes, any traditional community petitions him and how he responds.