Bishop of Gracias
Msgr. Walter Guillén Soto, S.D.B. was born on 6 December 1961 in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. He obtained a licentiate in theology from the Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala; a licentiate in pedagogy and educational sciences from the Universidad Don Bosco in San Salvador; and a doctorate in education and pedagogical sciences from the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain). He made his religious profession as Salesian of Don Bosco on 6 June 1986 and received priestly ordination on 5 November 1988. He has held the following positions: academic director of the San Miguel Institute in Tegucigalpa; director of the archdiocesan theological institute in Tegucigalpa; director of the Ricaldone Institute in San Salvador; director of the Don Bosco College in San José, Costa Rica; director of the Instituto Técnico Don Bosco de Panamá; director of the Instituto Tecnológico Don Bosco AC de Saltillo, Mexico; and special secretary to the archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Until now he has been: since 2017, rector of the San Juan Bosco Shrine in Tegucigalpa; and since 2018, general chaplain of the Catholic University of Honduras. He has also served as president of the Catholic Federation of Panama and president of the Inter-American Confederation of Catholic Education (CIEC).