Leadership
Most. Rev. Archbishop Miguel Cabrejos
Titles
President, Latin American Catholic Episcopal Council (CELAM); Co-President, Religions for Peace
Christian, Peru
Archbishop Miguel Cabrejos was born in 1948 in a rural province in the northern Peruvian region of Cajamarca and was ordained in 1974. Before being named to head the Archdiocese of Trujillo, he served as bishop to the country’s armed forces.
He was elected in 2018 to a second term as president of the Peruvian bishops’ conference after serving the first term from 2009 to 2012. He was a founder of the Catholic University of Trujillo, where he serves as grand chancellor and is also vice grand chancellor of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru in Lima.
He was elected to head the Latin American bishops’ council, or CELAM, in 2019.