Juan Antonio Guerrero Alves

Juan Antonio Guerrero Alves, S.J. (born 20 April 1959), is a Spanish Jesuit priest who served as the prefect of the Vatican's Secretariat for the Economy from 1 January 2020 to 30 November 2022. He previously taught at the university level and held administrative positions within the Jesuit order.

Life and career Juan Antonio Guerrero Alves was born on 20 April 1959 in Mérida, Spain, the second of four brothers. After beginning college to study economics following the career path of his father, a businessman, he entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus in 1979. He was ordained a priest on 30 May 1992. He earned a licentiate in economics at the Autonomous University of Madrid in 1986 and a licentiate in philosophy and letters there in 1993. He studied theology in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and Lyon, France, and obtained a licentiate in theology from the Comillas Pontifical University in 1994. Beginning in 2017 he served as delegate of the superior general in Rome for interprovincial homes and works and as general counsellor of the Society of Jesus,

On 14 November 2019, Pope Francis named him prefect of the Secretariate for the Economy, effective 1 January 2020. Although when Pope Francis created that position he established that it should be held by a cardinal, and therefore normally a bishop, he agreed to allow Guerrero Alves to remain a priest so that he could return to ordinary assignments as a Jesuit when his curial service ends.

On 30 November 2022, his resignation for personal reasons was announced.