Alejandro Moral Anton

Alejandro Moral Antón O.S.A. (born June 1, 1955) is a Spanish priest of the Roman Catholic Church and the former Prior General of the Order of Saint Augustine, a position he held from 2013 to 2025.

Biography Moral was born on June 1, 1955, in La Vid y Barrios. He attended high school at the Seminary College of Saint Augustine in Palencia and, in 1972, entered the Augustinian novitiate of the Monastery of Santa Maria de La Vid, taking his simple vows on September 12, 1973.

Moral studied philosophy at the same Monastery of Santa Maria de La Vid, and theology at the Augustinian Major Seminary of Tagaste (Los Negrales). In 1978, he was sent to the International College of Santa Monica in Rome, where he completed his theology degree. He made his solemn profession in the Order of Saint Augustine on September 7, 1980. He was ordained a deacon on January 4, 1981, and on June 20 of the same year, he received his priestly ordination in the chapel of the Colegio San Agustín in Madrid.

At the general chapter held in Rome in 2001, Moral was elected to the post of vicar general of the Order. In 2004, he became procurator general and, in 2007, assistant general. On 4 September 2013, he was elected prior general for a six-year term. He succeeded Robert Francis Prevost, the future Pope Leo XIV. On 9 September 2019, he was re-elected for another six-year term. Antón left office in September 2025.