Andrés Gabriel Ferrada Moreira

Andrés Gabriel Ferrada Moreira (born 10 June 1969) is a Chilean Catholic prelate who has served as bishop of the Diocese of San Bartolomé de Chillán since 2025. He was previously the Secretary of the Dicastery for the Clergy from 2021 to 2025. From 2006 to 2018 he worked in his native Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile, afterwards beginning service in the dicastery.

Biography Andrés Gabriel Ferrada Moreira was born in Santiago de Chile on 10 June 1969. He was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Santiago on 3 July 1999. and earned a doctorate in theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in 2006. In addition to pastoral assignments in that archdiocese, he was director of studies and prefect of theology at the Seminario Pontificio Mayor de los Santos Ángeles Custodios. In defending himself against charges of spiritual manipulation, Karadima said Ferrada "has a difficult character and is somewhat reckless".

He joined the staff of the Congregation for the Clergy in 2018. He was consecrated a bishop by Pope Francis on 17 October 2021.

On 31 October 2025, Pope Leo XIV appointed him Bishop of San Bartolomé de Chillán, while allowing him to retain the personal title of archbishop from his former titular see of Tiburnia.