Roman Catholic Bishop. Valencia born Monsignor Gregorio Adam was ordained priest on December 21, 1916 by Msgr. Felipe Rincón González. Serving as parish priest at La Vitoria, Montalbán and successively at Ocumare del Tuy, he graduated in canon law in 1921. Named vicar of Valencia in 1922 while the city hoped to become a diocese, he was appointed pastor of San Juan en Caracas in 1937 before being elected later that year, the third bishop of the diocese of Valencia en Venezuela by Pope Pius XI, which bishopric had by then been erected by the Holy See in 1922. Receiving his episcopal consecration from Archbishop Luigi Centoz, known for his pastoral zeal, Adam supported various lay movements including the Catholic Action, the Legion of Mary, the confraternities of the Santísimo and Ntra. Sra. de Coromoto y la Virgen Milagrosa and the Apostleship of Prayer. Particularly dedicated to the seminary of his diocese, he was fundamental in the reopening of the University of Carabobo and, being an eloquent writer and speaker, initiated the "El Carabobeño" review, authoring columns under the name A. Dalmau. Holding the first Eucharistic Congress in Valencia in 1954, that same year he organized the Second Marian Congress on the centenary of dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Mary. Overseeing the following year activities for the Cuatricentenario of Valencia, he held constant visits throughout his diocese, creating several parishes and defending marriage and family prerogatives. During his tenure he also superintended works on the cathedral of Nuestra Señora del Socorro of Valencia, carrying out a series of changes in the facade and interior of the temple, giving it the decorativeness that characterizes it today. Reorganizing the Bolivarian Society's Valencia section, he was decorated with the Orden del Libertador. First director of the Instituto Científico de Carabobo created on April 19, 1943, he was elected corresponding member of the Venezuelan National Academies of History and Language. Founding the Sociedad Bolivariana de Valencia in 1960, serving as its first president, he died while still in office as ordinary of the diocese, of pulmonary oedema and a myocardial infarction.