Prelate of Huamachuco
Msgr. Pascual Benjamín Rivera Montoya, T.O.R., was born on 17 May 1964 in Ayotla, metropolitan archdiocese of Toluca, Mexico. On 26 July 1987 he entered the Third Order Regular of Saint Francis. He made his solemn profession on 17 September 1991 and was ordained a priest on 5 July 1992. He completed his Baccalaureate studies in philosophy and theology at the Intercontinental University of the Missionaries of Guadalupe (1988-1994). He was awarded a licentiate in canon law from the Universidad Pontificia de México (1996-1999) and a doctorate from the Pontifical Urbanian University in Rome (2000-2003). He was assigned to the metropolitan archdiocese of México, where he held the following positions: parish vicar of Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza (1994-2001); local superior of his Order and parish priest of Los Santos Reyes (2001-2007); coadjutor vicar of La Divina Providencia parish (2007-2009); parish priest of San Pío X (2009-2017); pro episcopal vicar of Vicariate III of the metropolitan archdiocese of México (2012-2019) and parish vicar of San Pío X (2017-2019). He has also served as a judge of the ecclesiastical tribunal of the metropolitan archdiocese of Mexico. In the province of his Order he served as vicar, counsellor and treasurer, and in the Order he was counsellor and procurator general. On 26 July 2019 he was appointed as apostolic administrator sede vacante et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis of the territorial prelature of Huamachuco. In addition to Spanish, he speaks Italian, English, French and Latin.