Josep-Lluís Serrano Pentinat

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Josep-Lluís Serrano Pentinat (Western Catalan: [dʒuˈzɛb ʎuˈis seˈrano pentiˈnat]; born 19 March 1977) is a Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church who has been serving as Bishop of Urgell and ex officio episcopal Co-Prince of Andorra since 2025. Serrano worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from 2012 to 2024.

== Early life ==
Serrano was born on 19 March 1977 in Tivissa, Catalonia, Spain. He is a fluent speaker of Catalan, Spanish, French, English, Italian and Portuguese. He entered the minor seminary in Tortosa at the age of 14, then entered the major seminary in 1995. He studied at the Faculty of Theology of Catalonia in Barcelona and received a Bachelor of Theology degree in 2001. Serrano was ordained as a deacon in 2001 and served in that position in the parish of the Assumption of Mary in Amposta for a year. On 21 April 2002, he was ordained as a priest by Bishop Xavier Salinas i Vinyals in the Tortosa Cathedral.
Serrano served as the priest of three rural parishes, la Palma d’Ebre, la Bisbal de Montsant and Margalef, from 2002 to 2005. He studied dogmatic theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University from 2005 to 2007 and earned a licentiate in 2007. Returning to Tortosa…