Luis Cabrera Herrera

Luis Gerardo Cabrera Herrera, OFM (born 11 October 1955), is an Ecuadorian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been Archbishop of Guayaquil since 2015. He was Archbishop of Cuenca from 2009 to 2015. He has been president of the Ecuadorian Episcopal Conference since 2020, having served as its vice president from 2011 to 2014 and from 2017 to 2020. On 7 December 2024, Pope Francis made Cabrera a cardinal.

Biography Early years Luis Cabrera Herrera was born on 11 October 1955 in Azogues. He studied at the Franciscan minor seminaries there and in Quito, followed by philosophy and theology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador. He earned his doctorate in philosophy at the Pontifical Antonianum University in Rome. He was ordained a priest on 8 September 1983

He received his episcopal consecration on 4 July He was installed there on 5 December.

On 28 May 2019, he was named a member of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

He served as apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Daule from 17 March 2022 to 25 June 2023.

He was vice president of the EEC from 2017 to 2020.

On 7 July 2023, Pope Francis named him one of the delegate presidents of the first session of the Synod on Synodality.

On 6 October 2024, Pope Francis announced he planned to make Cabrera a cardinal on 8 December, a date that was later changed to 7 December. He is the sixth Ecuadorian to be named a cardinal. and the first from Guayaquil while the others were from Quito. Cabrera expects to remain in Guayaquil as cardinal.

On 7 December 2024, Pope Francis made him a cardinal, assigning him as a member of the order of cardinal priests with the title of Sacra Famiglia di Nazareth a Centocelle.

He participated as a cardinal elector in the 2025 papal conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV.