Jorge Ignacio García Cuerva

Jorge Ignacio García Cuerva (born 12 April 1968) is an Argentine prelate of the Catholic Church who has been archbishop of Buenos Aires since 2023.

Jorge Ignacio García Cuerva was born in Río Gallegos on 12 April 1968.

He earned licentiate degrees in theology, with specialization in Church history and canon law, from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina “Santa María de los Buenos Aires”, and get a qualification as a lawyer at the Universidad Católica de Salta (UCASAL) in Argentina.

[1] He worked as parish vicar and parish priest of Nuestra Señora de la Cava in Beccar; parish priest of Santa Clara de Asís in Tigre; promotor of justice in the interdiocesan tribunal of San Isidro, Merlo-Moreno; vice president of diocesan Caritas; diocesan delegate for prison pastoral care, and chaplain of various penitentiaries of the province of Buenos Aires.

[3] He became deputy chair of the International Commission of Catholic Prison Pastoral Care.