Luis Miranda Rivera
Luis Francisco Miranda Rivera was born on January 24, 1954, in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico. After high school in Santurce he entered the Order of Carmelites, studied philosophy at the Central University of Bayamon and theology at the Pontifical University of Salamanca in Spain, where he took a licentiate in the theology of religious life. He made his religious vows in 1983 and was ordained a priest on September 14, 1984.
His priesthood was spent as a pastor: deputy parish priest and parish priest in Madrid, in Mayaguez and in San Juan. For some fifteen years he lived in the Carmelite community of San Juan, serving as parish priest of Santa Teresita in Santurce, as episcopal vicar of the San Juan-Santurce pastoral zone, as a member of the presbyteral, pastoral and executive councils of the Archdiocese of San Juan, and as national delegate of the Carmelite Third Order Secular in Puerto Rico, which counts some seventeen lay communities.
On May 16, 2020, Pope Francis appointed him the second Bishop of Fajardo-Humacao, the young diocese erected in 2008 covering the east and northeast of the island, including El Yunque and the island-municipalities of Vieques and Culebra. He was consecrated and installed on August 15, 2020, the Solemnity of the Assumption. In September 2026 Pope Leo XIV named a coadjutor to serve beside him; as of this writing that appointment still lies in the future and Miranda Rivera remains the sitting ordinary.
No Traditional Latin Mass is documented anywhere in the Diocese of Fajardo-Humacao. The island-wide listings maintained by Una Voce Puerto Rico place the older form only in the Archdiocese of San Juan and the Diocese of Arecibo, and the Latin Mass Directory's Puerto Rico page likewise shows no Fajardo-Humacao venue. There is no FSSP, ICKSP or SSPX presence in the diocese.
Miranda Rivera has issued no Traditionis Custodes decree, permission or restriction that can be found in the public record, in Spanish or English. With no standing community of the older form in his diocese, there was nothing for such a decree to regulate, and none was made.
His record so far is therefore the record he inherited: a diocese in which the older form has no documented presence, neither fostered nor forbidden by any act of his own. On the old Mass, his record so far is the record he inherited.