Bishop Jorge Enrique Concha Cayuqueo

Bishop Jorge Enrique Concha Cayuqueo, O.F.M., was born on 8 June 1958 in Carahue, in the diocese of Temuco. After completing his studies in philosophy and theology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, he was awarded a doctorate in social sciences from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. On 23 December 1983 he gave his solemn vows in the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor for the province of Chile, and received priestly ordination on 20 December 1986. He has held the following offices: master of Friars of temporary profession; provincial secretary for formation and studies; parish vicar in various parishes; Guardian of the San Felipe de Jesús House of Formation in Santiago; commissioner of the Holy Land in Chile; provincial minister of the Franciscan Province of the Most Holy Trinity of Chile and president of the Conference of Provincial Ministers of the Southern Cone (Argentina, Paraguay and Chile) and first vice president of the Conference of Religious in Chile. On 14 July 2015, he was appointed titular bishop of Carpi and auxiliary of the archdiocese of Santiago de Chile. He received episcopal consecration on the following 25 December. On 11 June 2018 he was appointed apostolic administrator sede vacante et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis of Osorno, and on 5 February 2020 he was appointed bishop of the same see.