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Rev. Hector Gutierrez
Rev. Hector Gutierrez has served as the Director of Latin American Development since May 2003.His primary area of responsibility is the support of new churches throughout Latin America and the education and training of pastoral leaders.
Born in Guadalajara, Jalisco (México), Gutierrez was ordained by the Roman Catholic Church in 1994, and gained standing with the Metropolitan Community Churches in 2005.He attended Saint Joseph Seminary in Guadalajara, México.Upon graduation, he served as Assistant Pastor in Guadalajara, Cuquio, Arenal, and El Salto in the state of Jalisco and in Tetepan, which is part of Mexico City.He also served as the chaplain of Saint Therese College.He was appointed to be a Member of the Cultural Committee in the Archdiocese in Guadalajara and was elected President of the Students Association of the Pontifical University.He is also a guest teacher at the Pastoral Institute in Los Angeles, California.After 9/11, he was the co-coordinator of an Inter-religious meeting between Jews, Muslims, Protestants, Lutherans, Catholics, Methodists and Buddhists in Los Angeles, California.He has also worked in different parishes in the United States, including Orange Cove, Salinas, San Gabriel, Selma, and Commerce City in California.
A significant part of his ministry has been based in teaching.He was a teacher of Philosophy and Ethics at the University of Guadalajara and of social science at Magallanes College in Totatiche, Jalisco.He was also a professor of Theology at Salesian Seminary, Saint Joseph Seminary, Evangelization 2000, the Pastoral Institute in LA, and at La Salle University in Guadalajara where he taught a variety of subjects, including Christology, Anthropology, Eschatology, Liberation Theology, Holy Trinity, Pauline Theology, New Testament Theology, Canon Law, Ecumenism, Toward Religious Pluralism, Third Millennium Theological Perspectives, Sacraments in Latin American Perspective, and Dialogue between Theology and Science.
His post-graduate studies were undertaken at the Pontifical University of Mexico, where he obtained his degree in Dogmatic Theology with a specialization in Christology.The title of his work is "Jesus Christ: The Full Realization of Men and Women."He is currently a Doctoral Candidate in Sacred Theology at the Pontifical University of Salamanca in Spain, having begun his doctoral studies at the Pontifical University of Holy Conception in Concepción, Chile.
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