Archbishop Andrés Gabriel Ferrada Moreira

Archbishop Andrés Gabriel Ferrada Moreira was born on 10 June 1969 in Santiago de Chile, in the metropolitan archdiocese of the same name. He attended a course in law at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and, as a student of the Pontifical Seminary of Santiago, he obtained a bachelor’s degree in theology. He was awarded a licentiate in biblical sciences from the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, and a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He received priestly ordination on 3 July 1999. He has held the following offices: parish vicar of Cristo Evangelizador y Solidario in Cerro Navia, Santiago (1999-2000), professor of the School of the Permanent Diaconate in Santiago (2000), parish vicar of St. Johann von Capistran in München (2002-2003), professor of the Seminario Pontificio Mayor de Santiago (2005), collaborator in the parish of Cristo Crucificado, Independencia, Santiago (2006-2009), professor in the Faculty of Theology of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2006-2018), member of the Council (2010-2018) and director of the licentiate course (2013-2017), professor of the Seminario Pontificio Mayor de Santiago (2008-2018), director of studies (2008-2018) and prefect of theology (2008-2012), chaplain of the Monastery of Cristo Rey y María Medianera of the Discalced Carmelites in Macul, Santiago (2008-2018), collaborator in the parishes of San Juan Apóstol de Vitacura (2010-2013) and of San Ramón de Providencia (2014-2018), director of the Revista Católica del Arzobispado de Santiago (2008-2017), and official of the Congregation for the Clergy (2018-2021). On 1 October 2021 he was appointed secretary of the Congregation for the Clergy and titular archbishop of Tiburnia, receiving episcopal ordination the following 17 October. He is a member of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and the new particular Churches) and of the Dicastery for Bishops.