Both Jos Horacio Gmez, former archbishop of San Antonio, and Armando Xavier Ochoa, former bishop of El Paso, are members of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and moved to California to be the Archbishop of Los Angeles and Bishop of Fresno, respectively.
Jose Horacio Gomez (born December 26, 1951) is a Mexican-born American prelate of the Catholic Church. He previously served as Auxiliary Bishop of Denver from 20012004 and as Archbishop of San Antonio from 20042010. He became the fifth Archbishop of Los Angeles in 2011. Beginning on November 15, 2016, Gomez served as Vice President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops; his term as Vice President ended with his election as President on November 12, 2019. Los Angeles Roman Catholic Los Angeles Fresno On December 1, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Ochoa Bishop of the Diocese of Fresno, California, succeeding Bishop John Steinbock who had died of lung cancer in December 2010. 
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno is a particular church of the Latin Church of the Roman Catholic Church in the western region (XI) of the United States, in the State of California. It is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. A suffragan diocese is one of the dioceses other than the metropolitan archdiocese that constitute an ecclesiastical province. In the Catholic Church, although such a diocese is governed by its own bishop or ordinary, who is the suffragan bishop, the metropolitan archbishop has in its regard certain rights and duties of oversight. He has no power of governance within a suffragan diocese, but has some limited rights and duties to intervene in cases of neglect by the authorities of the diocese itself. Armando Xavier Ochoa (2011-2019) 
