Rubén de la Cruz Martínez

Rubén de la Cruz Martínez was born on 4 May 1966 at San Francisco del Rincón, matching the roster birth date; the bulletin states no civil state. He was ordained a priest on 21 October 1993, incardinated into the metropolitan archdiocese of León. No seminary, degree, ordainer, or motto is stated anywhere opened, and none is imported. The bulletin lists his offices, undated, as parish vicar; spiritual director of the Institute of Superior Studies of Irapueto; vocational assistant of the deanery of Irapueto; spiritual director in the diocesan seminary; head of the spiritual area of the Commission of the Clergy; and parish priest and episcopal vicar of the VI Pastoral Zone. At his appointment he was rector of the National Votive Sanctuary of Cristo Rey and diocesan spiritual director of the Adoración Nocturna Mexicana. Pope Francis appointed him auxiliary bishop of León, titular bishop of Teudali, on 4 May 2026; Teudali is the bulletin form, and Catholic-Hierarchy and GCatholic use the Latin form Theudalis for the same see.

CONSECRATION TIER FLAG: his consecration date, 16 July 2026, rests on two agreeing secondary listings - GCatholic's 2026 newly-elected list (elected 2026.05.04, consecrated 2026.07.16) and Catholic-Hierarchy's July-August 2026 events page (16 Jul, 'Ordained Bishop,' Theudalis) - and is NOT diocesan-primary; an archdiocesan or CEM notice for the consecration was not found, so a diocesan-primary source is still owed. The joint consecration with Ramón Orozco Muñoz the same day is confirmed by both listings. Catholic-Hierarchy's profile names Archbishop Joseph Spiteri (Titular Archbishop of Serta, Apostolic Nuncio to Mexico) as principal consecrator, with Archbishop Jaime Calderón Calderón of León and Bishop José Leopoldo González González of San Juan de los Lagos as principal co-consecrators; that is CH-profile-attributed, not bulletin-confirmed, and the venue is unestablished, so no cathedral is assumed. 'Irapueto' is carried exactly as the bulletin prints it in both languages, presumably the bulletin's rendering of Irapuato; it is flagged, not silently corrected. No motto was found in any source, and his individual GCatholic profile page was not located, so no motto text is held either; no seminary or education, priestly ordainer, dated parish assignment, or post-consecration assignment was found.