Bishop Marcial Humberto Guzmán Saballo

Marcial Humberto Guzmán Saballos was born in Tola, in the Diocese of Granada (Nicaragua), on February 15, 1965. Before entering the seminary, he studied economics and worked in banking for a year. Subsequently, he pursued ecclesiastical studies in philosophy and theology at the National Seminary in Managua. He obtained a Licentiate in Canon Law from the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome. He was ordained a priest on December 4, 1993, and incardinated into the Diocese of Granada (Nicaragua). He has held the following positions: Parish Administrator of the parishes of Santa Ana in Moyogalpa, San Jorge in San Jorge, and Inmaculada Concepción in Cárdenas; Parish Priest of the parishes of San Diego de Alcalá on the island of Ometepe, Nuestra Señora de Candelaria in Diriomo, Santa Ana in Nandaime, Jesucristo Rey del Universo in Pantanal, and Nuestra Señora del Perpetuo Socorro in Boaco; Rector of the San Pedro Apóstol Diocesan Seminary in Granada; Episcopal Vicar for the Boaco and Rivas zones; Judicial Vicar; and, from 2017 to the present, Diocesan Chancellor and Rector of the Santuario Nacional de Jesús del Rescate in Popoyuapa.