After his installation on July 8, Cobo said that his “first [step] will be to listen” through meetings with “all those who have a responsibility in the diocese” and the presbytery.
He noted that there will be three words “that will accompany us throughout the Church: participation, communion, and mission,” which he considers “a good focal point, a good template to start a new stage.”
‘Like a groom before the wedding’
The new archbishop commented that “Madrid is an exciting diocese, because it has an overflowing lay life” in which there are “plenty of lively and strong communities.”
For this reason, he said he feels “like a bride or groom before the wedding: You become dizzy due to the immensity of what marriage means, but when you’re in love, these things become easier. I find myself in love with the Lord and with the mission he is entrusting to me.”
From now on, he said, he is ready to “guide, preach, celebrate, but above all accompany, so that the diocese gets to where God wants it to go.”
More than 40 years in Madrid
Although born in Andalusia in the country’s far south, Cobo has been in Madrid in central Spain since the 1980s, when he went to the capital to study law at the Complutense University, from which he graduated in 1988.
That same year he entered the seminary, where he completed his theology studies. From 1994-1996, he studied morality at the Pontifical University of Comillas.
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