Juan Miguel Betancourt
Juan Miguel Betancourt, S.E.M.V. is a Puerto Rican religious and Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford.Biography
Early life and priesthood
Juan Miguel Betancourt was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico on June 1, 1970 to Miguel and Gloria Betancourt. He is the oldest of three children. He joined the Servants of the Eucharist and of the Blessed Virgin Mary on January 1, 1992, and took perpetual vows on August 6, 2000. On April 21, 2001, he was ordained a priest.
Bishop Betancourt graduated with a Bachelor of Natural Sciences from the University of Puerto Rico and received a Master of Divinity degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico. Following ordination, he earned a Licentiate in Sacred Scripture from the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome in 2005.
From 2005 to 2006, he taught at the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico and Regina Cleri Major Seminary.
In 2006, then-Father Betancourt was assigned by his order to be the pastor of St. Francis de Sales parish in the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.
He also served as a professor of sacred scripture at the Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity in St. Paul, MN and also served as a vice rector of formation and associate academic dean from 2006 until 2018. He taught undergraduate theology at the University of St. Thomas from 2006 through 2009.Episcopacy
On September 18, 2018, Pope Francis appointed him titular bishop of Curzola and Auxiliary Bishop of Hartford. He was consecrated as bishop on October 18, 2018 by Archbishop Leonard Paul Blair of Hartford, Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Archdiocese of Military Services, and Bishop Andrew H. Cozzens, Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.
