Colombia. Oriental Colombia and Ecuador, which form only one Claretian Organism, elected the new Provincial (Major) Superior. Fr. José María Flórez Jaimes has been re-elected to the same service he had been rendering during the previous six years. One of the tasks that the Chapter entrusts to him is that of guiding the Province towards the forthcoming fusion of the Colombian Organisms and Venezuela.

He took part in the two General Chapters celebrated in Rome.

All throughout his priestly life he has worked in the education ministry, urban and in the missionary animation.