Octaviano Tenorio

Octaviano Tenorio Domínguez (born 31 October 1942) has been a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since 2007. He was one of the original area authorities called in 1995.

Tenorio was born in Tilapan, Veracruz, Mexico. Tenorio supervised the Genealogical Service Center until 1984 when he became the first recorder of the Mexico City Temple.

LDS Church service Tenorio has served in the LDS Church as a branch president, stake clerk, stake mission president, counselor in a stake presidency, stake president and twice as a regional representative (one time beginning in 1993). He was a sealer in the Mexico City Temple when it opened. He also served as president of the Mexico Tuxtla Gutiérrez Mission from 1990 to 1993.

From 1995 to 2000, Tenorio was an area seventy, serving in the Mexico South Area Presidency for part of that time. While in the later position he was a key figure at the groundbreaking for the Veracruz Mexico Temple. In April 2007, Tenorio became a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy and served as a counselor in the Mexico Area Presidency from 2007 to 2012.

On 6 October 2012, Tenorio was released from the First Quorum of the Seventy and designated an emeritus general authority at the LDS Church's semi-annual general conference.

From 2014 to 2017, Tenorio was the director of the Missionary Training Center (MTC) in Mexico City. This is the church's second largest MTC (after the one in Provo, Utah).

Personal life In Mexico City, Tenorio met Rosa Elva Valenzuela González, a native of Nuevo Casas Grandes, who was largely raised in the Mormon colonies in Mexico. They were married in December 1973 in Colonia Dublán and were sealed in the Mesa Arizona Temple in January 1974. They are the parents of five children. His youngest brother, Miguel A. Tenorio, served as a mission president in the Bolivia Cochabamba Mission.