Edinson Edgardo Farfán Córdova

Edinson Edgardo Farfán Córdova (born September 21, 1974) is a Peruvian Catholic prelate who has served as Bishop of Chiclayo since 2024, succeeding Robert Francis Prevost (who was elected Pope Leo XIV a year later). A member of the Order of Saint Augustine (OSA), he served simultaneously as parish priest, academic teacher, and administrator of the Order in several locations throughout Bolivia and Peru.

Biography

Early life and education Farfán Córdova was born in Tambogrande in the Piura province of northern Peru on September 21, 1974. He entered the Augustine Order (OSA) in 1998, as a novice in Lima.

Farfán Córdova coordinated for the International Commission of Communications and Publications of the Organization of Augustinian Recollects of Latin America from 2006 to 2014, simultaneously vicar of Santa Ana di Cala Cala in the archdiocese of Cochabamba, Bolivia, from 2007 and 2008, then vicar of San José Obrero in the diocese of Chulucanas, Peru, where he also taught as professor of theology and served as spiritual rector at the seminary from 2009 to 2010. He was master of pre-novices of the Augustinian Order from 2011 to 2012. served as episcopal vicar for consecrated life in Trujillo from 2017 to 2018, and as secretary general of the Organization of Augustinian Recollects of Latin America from 2015 to 2019. and subsequently Prelate of Chuquibambilla on December 7, 2019. Héctor Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte, the Archbishop of Trujillo and member of the Order of Friars Minor, ordained him bishop on January 4, 2020.

Bishop of Chiclayo On February 14, 2024, Pope Francis appointed Farfán Córdova as Bishop of Chiclayo, succeeding Robert Francis Prevost, whom the pope appointed as Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops. In the 2025 conclave, Prevost was elected as Pope Leo XIV. In a news conference following the 2025 conclave, he described the Pope's time riding horseback through mountainous communities in northern Peru as formative. Farfán Córdova described his predecessor as "a shepherd among people, a man with the smell of sheep," endorsing his papacy.