Jesus Baza Dueñas (March 19, 1911 – July 12, 1944) was a Catholic priest and local leader on Guam during World War II.
Japan decided to send to Guam two more cooperative Catholic priests, Monsignor Dominic Fukahori and Father Petro Komatzu, but Duenas at personal risk often refused to co-operate with them.
Father Dueñas knew much about the movements of the six American servicemen who had escaped capture during the December 10, 1941 Japanese ground invasion, and about those who helped and harbored them.
[2] The Japanese had long suspected that Dueñas knew a great deal about the only American to escape capture, George Tweed.
When his body was buried at St. Joseph's Church in Inarajan, hundreds of people and the island's highest officials attended the ceremony.