The Prelate of Opus Dei conferred priestly ordination on 26 deacons of the Prelature:

• on December 6, in the Basilica of St. Michael in Madrid, Felipe Álvarez Quintero y José Machado Rodríguez were ordained as priests.

• on December 12, in Rome, Bishop Javier Echevarría ordained an additional 24 faithful of Opus Dei in the Basilica of St. Eugene.

The names of those ordained in this second ceremony are: Javier Aparicio Sánchez, Fernando de Andrés de Francisco, Antoni Borràs Cabacés, Pedro Brunori, José Andrés Carvajal Prieto, Armando Catapano, Miguel Vasco Costa de Salis Amaral, José Domingo Gómez, Roderick Francisco Esclanda, Mark Telford Georges, Euclides Eslava Gómez, Joaquín Fernández Monistrol, Juan Rafael González Villa, José Antonio González Errázuriz, Guillermo González-Villalobos Bérgamo, Juan Diego Ibáñez Masramon, Luis Joannon Johnson, José Luis León Solís, Jorge Putnam Velando, Antonio Schlatter Navarro, Jesús Sevilla García-Rivera, Honoré Traoré, Luis Fernando Valdés López y John Paul Wauck.

The 26 new priests come from 12 countries: Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Italy, Ivory Coast, Mexico, Peru, The Philippines, Portugal, Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United States.

In addition, on December 11, Bishop Echevarría conferred the diaconate on eleven faithful of the Prelature at the parish of Blessed Josemaría in Rome.