Isidoro del Carmen Mora Ortega

Bishop Isidoro del Carmen Mora Ortega (born 5 March 1970) is a Nicaraguan Roman Catholic prelate.

Since 2009 he has been parish priest of San Ramon Nonato and vicar general of his native Diocese of Matagalpa.

[2] and was consecrated a bishop on 26 June 2021 by Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, archbishop of Managua, assisted by bishops Pablo Ervin Schmitz Simon and Rolando José Álvarez Lagos at the Cathedral of Our Lord of Esquipulas in Siuna.

[3] On the night of 20 December 2023, Bishop Mora was arrested by the Nicaraguan government headed by president Daniel Ortega, one day after participating in a mass celebrating the 99th anniversary of the Diocese of Matagalpa, whose head, Bishop Rolando José Álvarez Lagos, was arrested after refusing to leave the country.

[5] On 14 January 2024, Ortega freed Mora, along with Álvarez, 15 priests, and two seminarians and exiled them to Vatican City.