Enric Puiggròs will be the new delegate of the Jesuits in Catalonia

The Jesuit Enric Puiggròs has been appointed by the Provincial Superior of the Society of Jesus in Spain as the new delegate of the apostolic platform of the Jesuits in Catalonia, starting next September. Puiggròs, born in Barcelona in 1974, is currently a Jesuit Vocational Promoter in Spain. He will replace Llorenç Puig, who has held this position for the past 6 years.

Enric Puiggròs entered the Society of Jesus in 1993, at the novitiate in Zaragoza, was ordained a priest in 2006 and made the last vows as a Jesuit in 2013. He was a student at the San Ignacio de Sarriá school in Barcelona. He has a degree in History from the University of Barcelona and studied theology at the Faculty of Theology of Catalonia and at the ITF in Sant Cugat del Vallès, where he completed a degree in Fundamental Theology on Ignatian pedagogy.

His areas of work are pastoral care and the accompaniment of young people who want to start an itinerary within the Society of Jesus. He has been a teacher at the Claver de Raimat College and at the Clot de Barcelona Professional Technical School, responsible for the youth ministry of Jesuits in Catalonia and director of Jesuit Education Ministry, as well as coordinator of ministry of Jesuit schools from Catalonia, Valencia, Mallorca, Gandía and Alicante. Since 2017, he has been a vocation promoter of the Society of Jesus in Spain. He has also participated in international working groups such as the EJIF (European Jesuit in Formation) or the European team of vocation promoters.

Throughout his career in the field of pastoral care and accompaniment, he has incorporated his passion for music as a privileged channel to express the intuitions of Ignatian spirituality and enter into dialogue with young people. In music he finds an invitation to deepening, commitment and transformation. At the end of the 90s he was part of the Aras musical group and in 2003 he released the musical Arrupe.com of which he is co-creator and composer. He is currently part of the MUDOSI projects, a platform that bets on music and culture for the transmission of Ignatian spirituality, and of Acoustic Jesuits, along with 3 fellow Jesuit musicians from around the world.