Prelate of Humahuaca
Bishop Florencio Félix Paredes Cruz, C.R.L., Prelate of Humahuaca, was born on October 28, 1961, in Selochea, Bolivia. He carried out his primary studies in La Quiaca, Jujuy Province, and his secondary studies in Jujuy. He completed his ecclesiastical studies at the CEFITEQ of the Diocese of Quilmes and at the ISET of the Salesians in Buenos Aires. He made his perpetual profession on February 1, 1991, and was ordained a priest on February 1, 1995, in San Salvador de Jujuy, being incardinated in the Congregation of the Canons Regular of the Lateran. He has served as parochial vicar in parishes of the archdioceses of Salta, Rosario and Buenos Aires and in the Diocese of Jujuy; parish administrator of Nuestra Señora de la Medalla Milagrosa; a member of the presbyteral council of the Archdiocese of Salta; and master of novices and provincial of the Argentine province of the Canons Regular of the Lateran for two terms. He also served as parish priest of Nuestra Señora de Belén in the Prelature of Humahuaca. On March 10, 2018, he was appointed Coadjutor Prelate of Humahuaca. He received episcopal ordination on April 28, 2018, with Pedro María Olmedo Rivero as principal consecrator and Mario Antonio Cargnello and César Daniel Fernández as co-consecrators. He succeeded to the see as Prelate of Humahuaca on October 23, 2019.