Oscar Solis

In 2018 Solis released the Pastoral Plan for the diocese. It focuses on developing a comprehensive vision for strengthening faith formation, promoting vocations to the priesthood and a universal call for holiness to the laity, seeking new ways to support the diocese financially and support the needy, increasing the reverence and devotion of the Eucharist, and upholding the dignity of all in society. The implementation of the plan began in 2018 and will end in 2023.

Pope Francis named Solis bishop of the Diocese of Salt Lake City on January 10, 2017, when the position had been vacant for 20 months. He was installed on March 7, 2017.

In Los Angeles, Solis headed of a council focusing on minority issues as episcopal vicar for ethnic ministry from 2004 to 2009. He chaired and was later a member of the diocese' Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs. He was an organizer of the first National Assembly of Filipino Priests in the U.S. in November 2011. He has held several positions with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

On 11 December 2003, Pope John Paul II appointed Solis as titular bishop of Urci and as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. He was consecrated bishop by Cardinal Roger Mahony at the Cathedral of our Lady of the Angels in Los Angelese on February 10, 2004. Solis said at the time that he was familiar with Spanish but he was out of practice with speaking it.

Solis emigrated to the United States in 1984 and served for four years as parish vicar at Saint Rocco Parish in Union City, New Jersey, in the Diocese of Newark.He relocated to Louisiana and was incardinated in the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux on June 17, 1992. Solis held several parish posts in the diocese between 1988 and 2003, including rector of the St. Joseph Co-Cathedral Parish in Thibodaux, Louisiana.

Solis was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Cabanatuan in the Philippines on April 28, 1979 in San Jose. Between 1979 and 1984 he served in his diocese as rector of the minor seminary, secretary of the priests senate, school chaplain, and director of vocations.

Oscar Azarcón Solís (born October 13, 1953) is a Philippine-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church and current Bishop of Salt Lake City. Following a 20-month sede vacante, Solís was appointed by Pope Francis on January 10, 2017, and installed on March 7, 2017, after Solís' predecessor, John C. Wester, was appointed as Archbishop of Santa Fe. He was formerly an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Solís is the first Filipino-American to be consecrated a bishop and the first Asian American to lead a diocese.

The son of Antonia Azarcón and Anselmo dela Fuente Solís, Oscar Solís was born in San Jose City, Nueva Ecija, on October 13, 1953. He has three sisters and a brother, Ronald Solis, who is a Opus Dei priest in Hong Kong. Oscar Solis attended grade school at San Jose West Central School in San Jose and high school at Maria Assumpta Minor Seminary in Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija. He studied philosophy at Christ the King Seminary in Quezon City and theology at the Pontifical Royal Seminary of the University of Santo Tomas in Manila. He also pursued studies in Asian religions and cultures.