Father Ryan Jimenez, RCJ was born in Looc Sur, Poblacion, Asturias Cebu, Philippines. He is a religious priest from the Congregation of the Rogationists of the Heart of Jesus, which was founded by Saint Hannibal Mary Di Francia in 1897 in Messina, Italy.
Fr. Jimenez finished his philosophical studies at Rogationists Seminary College-Cebu, which at that time was affiliated with the University of San Jose-Recoletos, a private Catholic institution run by the Order of Augustinian Recollects. He went on to take his theological studies at the Don Bosco Center of Studies in Parañaque City.
On May 31, 2008 Fr. Jimenez professed for the first time the vows of chastity, poverty, obedience and zealous fulfillment of the Rogate and on June 1, 2013 he made the perpetual profession of the vows as a Rogationist religious. He was ordained as a priest on Oct. 24, 2015 by the Most Rev. David William Antonio in Parañaque City. He served as Prefect of Discipline in the Rogationist Seminary Manila for four years, then served as a missionary in Vietnam for another four years. From 2021 to 2023, he was appointed as the superior of the Good Shepherd House in Thu Dau Mot, Binh Duong, Vietnam.
In 2024 Fr. Jimenez came to the Diocese of Salt Lake City, where he ministered at the Cathedral of the Madeleine for a month, at Blessed Sacrament Parish in Sandy for a year, at St. Ann Parish in Salt Lake City for a year and as a hospital chaplain in University of Utah Hospital, Huntsman Cancer Institute and Primary Children Hospital for two years.
 On Aug. 1 he will begin his new assignment as administrator of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Salt Lake City, and chaplain to Judge Memorial Catholic High School, with residence at St. Ann Parish, Salt Lake City.
Fr. Jimenez speaks Cebuano, Ilonggo, Tagalog and English and a little Spanish, Vietnamese, Italian and Latin.
What would you like your new parishioners to know about you?
I would like them to know that I am a religious priest who belongs to a congregation that constantly prays and promotes for vocations to religious and priestly life.  
I am also a human being who journeys with them together, going to our final destination, which is heaven.
What are you looking forward to most about your new assignment?
I’m looking forward to meeting new people, building new friendships and, most of all, to be a Good Shepherd like Jesus.
As a priest, what is your greatest challenge?
My greatest challenge as a priest is to be faithful to my identity as alter Christus, “another Christ,” and a zealous worker in the ministry that God has entrusted to me in his vineyard.
As a priest, what has been your most satisfying experience?
My most satisfying experience is to give inspiration, joy and hope to the people around me. It is edifying and uplifting when people come and say to you, “Thank you, Father, for your priesthood.” My response is always, “To God be the glory. Amen!”