Bishop Ryan Jimenez is preparing to move to Guam to be the next Archbishop of Agana starting Aug. 15. 

Bishop Jimenez will be holding his last church services in the coming days across the CNMI.

Hist first mass of Thanksgiving  will be at San Jose Parish on Tinian on Wednesday, Aug. 7 at 6 p.m.

Parishes of San Francisco de Borja and San Isidro Labrador on Rota will celebrate mass on Thursday, August 8, at 6 p.m.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Cathedral on Saipan will have its mass celebration on Saturday, Aug. 10, at 9 a.m.

Jimenez first came to the CNMI as a migrant worker in 1995 and taught at Eskuelan San Francisco de Borja on Rota. He was ordained to the priesthood in 2003.

In 2010, he was appointed Apostolic Administrator of Chalan Kanoa and, in 2016, as its second bishop.