There he was Rector of the Marian Shrine of "La Tirana", Director of the Lay School of Formation and Diocesan Secretary for the Pastoral Coordination.
[1] After Iquique's Bishop Juan Barros Madrid was transferred the Military Ordinariate of Chile, Órdenes became Diocesan Administrator on 17 November 2004.
On 2 October 2012, Rodrigo Pino charged publicly that Ordenes had repeatedly abused him sexually when he was as young as 15 and an acolyte at the Iquique cathedral.
By then the Apostolic Nuncio to Chile, Archbishop Ivo Scapolo, had conducted a four-month-long church investigation and sent his findings to the Vatican.
[6] On 8 October 2012, Órdenes submitted his resignation as Bishop of Iquique citing health problems and Pope Benedict XVI accepted it the next day.