Birth Date:
Jan. 13, 1970
Birthplace:
Dos Aguas, Michoacán, Mexico
Ordained:
June 28, 2002 in the Diocese of Yakima, Washington
Appointed Auxiliary Bishop of San Diego:
June 6, 2023
Consecrated:
Sept. 28, 2023
Auxiliary Bishop Pulido was born and raised in a small town located west of Mexico City, and attended minor seminary in Uruapan, Michoacán. There, he attended middle school and began high school, but in 1988, he and his family left Mexico and moved to the Yakima Valley where he finished high school. As a teenager, he worked in the fields, picking fruit and vegetables. Later, he worked as a teaching assistant at the Epic Migrant Head Start program in Yakima.
Auxiliary Bishop Pulido was born and raised in a small town located west of Mexico City, and attended minor seminary in Uruapan, Michoacán. There, he attended middle school and began high school, but in 1988, he and his family left Mexico and moved to the Yakima Valley where he finished high school. As a teenager, he worked in the fields, picking fruit and vegetables. Later, he worked as a teaching assistant at the Epic Migrant Head Start program in Yakima.
For a period of about five months, he helped care for Father Jerry Corrigan, a priest in his parish who was dying of cancer. He and Father Corrigan had many conversations and, during one of them, the priest invited him to consider entering the priesthood.
In 1994, he began his priestly formation at Mount Angel Seminary in Oregon. Four years later, he began theological studies at the Pontifical North American College and later at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family, both in Rome.
He was ordained to the priesthood on June 28, 2002. At the time of his appointment as auxiliary bishop of San Diego, he was serving as vicar for clergy and as vocations director for the Diocese of Yakima, as well as pastor of St. Joseph Parish in Kennewick, Wash.
Bishop Pulido’s coat of arms is divided into four quarters with wavy horizontal lines from top to bottom. The blue and white lines represent the Blessed Virgin Mary. They also suggest water, which alludes to Jesus washing the feet of His disciples and to the waters of baptism. The red and gold lines represent the Holy Spirit and fire. The colors also can be seen as referring to the Blood that (along with water) poured from Jesus’ side at His crucifixion, as well as to the bread (gold) and wine (red) transformed into the Eucharist. At the center is a roundel featuring a symbolic representation of the “mandatum” (washing of the feet), which he believes exemplifies service to all humanity. The roundel’s outer edge is a line composed of small humps; it is borrowed from the coat of arms of the Diocese of Yakima, where Bishop Pulido served as a priest before being named a bishop.
