Néstor Montesdeoca Becerra

Néstor Montesdeoca Becerra SDB (El Pan, Azuay Province, April 29, 1957), is an Ecuadorian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church affiliated with the Pia Sociedad de São Francisco de Sales. Currently, he is in charge of the Apostolic Vicariate of Mendez, in Ecuador.

Biography Néstor was born in El Pan, in the Ecuadorian province of Azuay. After completing his primary studies at the Nicanor Corral School, and his secondary studies at the Colégio Salesiano Orientalista de Cuenca, from 1977 to 1980, he frequented the institutional courses of Philosophy at the Instituto Superior Salesiano, at the time attached to the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Equador (now Salesian Polytechnic University), where he completed his degree in Educational Sciences, specializing in Psychopedagogy.

From 1977 to 1980, he studied theology in Rome, at the Pontifical Salesian University, completing his graduation. He also frequented a PhD course in Theological Sciences and Sacred Scripture at the same institution.

Dom Néstor participated in the beatification ceremony of Irmã Maria Troncatti, FMA, held in the Cathedral of Macas, on November 24, 2012, presided over by Salesian cardinal Angelo Amato, Entente Prefect of the Congregation for the Cause of Saints, as papal delegate. On the occasion, Dom Néstor read, in the name of the local Church, the Salesian request for the registration of Irmã Maria not cast two bem-venturados.