Born in Corrientes, Argentina, on 30 August 1945, Rogelio Ricardo Livieres Plano attended Goethe and San José Colleges in Asunción.
He was Vicar of the Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei in Buenos Aires and the surrounding area from 1983 to 1991.
[1] On 12 July 2004, Pope John Paul II appointed him Bishop of Ciudad del Este in Paraguay.
On 25 September 2014, when Livieres Plano was 69 years old, Pope Francis removed him as Bishop of Ciudad del Este and appointed Ricardo Jorge Valenzuela Rios, Bishop of Villarrica del Espíritu Santo, as apostolic administrator of the diocese.
[3] On 29 July 2015, two bishops visited him in the hospital: Heinz Wilhelm Steckling, his successor in Ciudad del Este, and Edmundo Valenzuela, Archbishop of Asunción.