FR. CALIXTO SALVATIERRA, OFM CONV.
Father Calixto was born on October 14, 1974, in the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, to his mother +Maria Elena Moreno, and father + Donald Salvatierra, along with three sisters and two brothers.
He entered postulancy in 1994 in the city of Santa Cruz, professed vows on December 8, 1997, and was ordained to the priesthood on October 7, 2004, in the city of Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Apart from the academic base in philosophy and theology, he completed a civil and ecclesiastical Master of Arts in Missiology from the Bolivian Catholic University.
He held different positions in the initial priestly religious formation, including university teaching while he supported, as far as possible, the required parish pastoral area.
He arrived in Georgia on March 30, 2017, wherein he was assigned as parochial vicar to Our Lady of Mercy Parish in Winston-Salem, a small city in North Carolina. After a year and a half, he was transferred to Atlanta to Holy Cross Parish where he carried out ministry for 4 years, and from September 15, 2022 to present is part of the Saint Philip Benizi parish community, serving as parochial vicar.
His hobbies are reading, music, soccer, and walking, and appreciating nature, among others.
You can contact Fr. Calixto via email at csalvatierra@stphilipbenizi.org.