BISHOP LUIS MARÍN DE SAN MARTÍN, OSA APPOINTED ALMONER OF HIS HOLINESS

The Prior General Fr. Joseph L. Farrell with his Council joyfully announces that the Holy Father Leo XIV has appointed

MONS. LUIS MARN DE SAN MARTÍN

ALMONER OF HIS HOLINESS

thereby entrusting to him the governance of the Dicastery for the Service of Charity.

The news of the appointment was published today, Thursday, 12 March 2026, in the Official Bulletin of the Holy See at 12:00 (Italian time).

Mons. Luis MARÍN, originally from Madrid (Spain), has rendered long service to the Order of Saint Augustine, in which he held, among other roles, those of Assistant General, Archivist General, and President of the Augustinian Institute of Spirituality.

On 6 February 2021 he was appointed by the Holy Father Francis Titular Bishop of Suliana and Undersecretary of the Synod of Bishops, a responsibility he has exercised until now. He received episcopal ordination on 1 April 2021.

The Prior General, in the name of the Augustinian family, wishes to convey to Mons. Luis

Marín his spiritual closeness and his gratitude for the generous dedication with which he has carried out his mission as Undersecretary of the Synod of Bishops. He assures him of the affection and prayers of the brothers and sisters of the Order and asks the Lord, through the intercession of Mary, Mother of Good Counsel, and of the saints of the Order, to bless abundantly this new stage of his ministry.

Fr. Joseph Farrell also expresses his gratitude to the Holy Father Leo XIV for this appointment and renews the commitment of the Order of Saint Augustine to serve the Church faithfully.

CURRICULUM VITAE

Mons. Luis Marín de San Martín was born in Madrid on 21 August 1961. He made his temporary vows in the Order of Saint Augustine on 5 September 1982 and his solemn vows on 1 November 1985. Between 1982 and 1988 he completed his philosophical and theological studies at the Tagaste Major Seminary (Los Negrales, Madrid). He was ordained a priest on 4 June 1988 by Mons. Francisco José Pérez y Fernández-Golfín, Auxiliary Bishop of Madrid.

He holds a Licentiate in Spiritual Theology from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas of Madrid (1990) and a Licentiate in Dogmatic Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome (1992). He obtained a Doctorate in Theology from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas (1998), with a dissertation on the ecclesiology of Saint John XXIII, defended in 1995. He also holds a diploma in Archival Studies (Vatican, 2011).

Between 1988 and 1990 he worked in the parish of Nuestra Señora de la Vid in San Sebastián de Los Reyes. He was a formator at the Augustinian Seminary of Los Negrales from 1992 to 1999 and, between 1992 and 1995, served as in solidum pastor of the parishes in the Montejo de la Sierra area (Madrid). He also served as director of the Augustinian Theological Institute Tagaste (1995–1999) and of the San Agustín Theological Center (1996–1998), and was a member of the Faculty Formation T eam from 1996 to 1999. From 1999 to 2002 he was Provincial Councillor of the

Augustinian Province of Spain and pastor of the parish of Santa Ana y la Esperanza (Madrid). Between 2002 and 2008 he was prior of the Monastery of Santa María de la Vid (La Vid, Burgos).

He has been a professor at the San Agustín Theological Center (Los Negrales – San Lorenzo de El Escorial) and at the Augustinian Theological Institute of Valladolid, and is the author of several books and numerous articles in specialized journals. Between 2009 and 2013 he served as secretary of. the Augustinian Historical Institute.

In 2008 he was appointed General Archivist of the Order of Saint Augustine and in 2013

Assistant General and President of the Augustinian Institute of Spirituality.

On 6 February 2021 he was appointed by Pope Francis Titular Bishop of Suliana and Undersecretary of the Synod of Bishops. He received episcopal ordination on 11 April 2021. On 12 March 2026 the Holy Father Leo XIV appointed him Almoner of His Holiness, thereby entrusting to him the governance of the Dicastery for the Service of Charity.