Luis Cabrera Herrera

Luis Gerardo Cabrera Herrera, OFM (born 11 October 1955), is an Ecuadorian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been Archbishop of Guayaquil since 2015.

He studied at the Franciscan minor seminaries there and in Quito, followed by philosophy and theology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador.

[2] He was ordained a priest on 8 September 1983[1] by Bishop Serafín Cartagena Ocaña, Vicar Apostolic of Zamora, a Franciscan.

He fulfilled these assignments for the Franciscans in Ecuador: vice-master of novices from 1983 to 1985; member of the Provincial Council from 1985 to 1988; master of novices from 1985 to 1990; secretary for studies and formation from 1995 to 2000; head of Vocation Ministry for Ecuador; director of the Franciscan Studies Center of Ecuador from 1996 to 2001; director of the Cardinal Bernardino Echeverría Philosophical-Theological Institute in Quito, and professor of Franciscan theology and spirituality from 1998 to 2000; provincial of the Franciscans in Ecuador from 2000 to 2003.

Based in Rome, he served as general councilor of the Order of Friars Minor with responsibility for the Franciscan provinces of Latin America and the Caribbean from 2004 to 2009.

[1] He received his episcopal consecration on 4 July[3] from Archbishop Giacomo Guido Ottonello, Apostolic Nuncio to Ecuador.