Pope Francis has appointed Msgr. Jorge Enrique Concha Cayuqueo, O.F.M., currently Bishop of Osorno, as Bishop of Temuco (Chile). Mons. Concha Cayuqueo, O.F.M., was born on June 8, 1958 in Carahue, in the diocese of Temuco. After completing his philosophical and theological studies at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, he obtained a doctorate in social sciences at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. On 23 December 1983 he made his solemn profession in the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor for the Province of Chile and received priestly ordination on 20 December 1986.
He has has carried out various services: Master of the Friars in temporary profession; Provincial Secretary for Formation and Studies; parish vicar in various parishes; Guardian of the San Felipe de Jesús House of Formation in Santiago; Holy Land Commissioner in Chile; Provincial Minister of the Franciscan Province of the Holy Trinity of Chile and President of the Conference of Provincial Ministers of the Southern Cone (Argentina, Paraguay and Chile) and First Vice President of the Conference of Religious in Chile.
On 14 July 2015 he was appointed titular bishop of Carpi and auxiliary of the archdiocese of Santiago de Chile. He received episcopal consecration the following 25 December.
On 11 June 2018 he was appointed apostolic administrator sede vacante et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis of Osorno and on 5 February 2020 he was appointed bishop of that See.
To Msgr. Jorge Enrique Concha the Order's best wishes and prayers that his ministry to the particular Church of Temuco will bear copious fruits of good.