Andrés Gabriel Ferrada Moreira

Andrés Gabriel Ferrada Moreira (born 10 June 1969) is a Chilean archbishop of the Catholic Church.

Andrés Gabriel Ferrada Moreira was born in Santiago de Chile on 10 June 1969.

In addition to pastoral assignments in that archdiocese, he was director of studies and prefect of theology at the Seminario Pontificio Mayor de los Santos Ángeles Custodios.

[1] Ferrada's years in Santiago were marked by his association with Father Fernando Karadima, the charismatic leader of a group called the Priestly Union of the Sacred Heart, whom a 2011 Vatican investigation found guilty of sexually assault minors and abusing his authority, leading to his laicization in 2018.

[1] On 8 September 2021, Pope Francis appointed him secretary of that Congregation, effective 1 October, and titular archbishop of Tiburnia.