Ruy Rendón Leal

Ruy Rendón Leal was born on 27 October 1953 in Cadereyta Jiménez, Nuevo León, and was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Monterrey on 8 September 1979 by José de Jesús Tirado Pedraza in the Basílica de la Purísima Concepción, Monterrey. He took a licentiate in biblical theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome from 1992 to 1995.

In Monterrey he served as parochial vicar at Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza and Nuestra Señora de Lourdes, as spiritual director of the Institute of Philosophy and prefect of studies of the minor seminary, as parish priest of San Juan Bautista in García from 1985 to 1992 and of San Felipe de Jesús in Monterrey from 1995 to 1996, as parochial administrator of San Pedro Apóstol in May 1995, and as spiritual director of the Institute of Theology of the Monterrey seminary from 1996 to 2005; he also directed the archdiocesan biblical school from 1984 to 1989 and advised the Order of Consecrated Virgins from 1995 to 2005.

Pope Benedict XVI appointed him Bishop of the Prelature of El Salto on 28 September 2005, and he received episcopal ordination on 30 November 2005. Benedict XVI appointed him Bishop of Matamoros on 16 July 2011, and he took possession on 3 September 2011. Pope Francis appointed him Archbishop of Hermosillo on 26 April 2016, succeeding Archbishop José Ulises Macías Salcedo, whose age-limit resignation was accepted the same day; Rendón Leal took possession on 8 June 2016 and received the pallium on 10 February 2017.

He was a member of the Synod of Bishops on the Word of God in 2008 and bishop responsible for pastoral profética in the Province of Monterrey from 2011 to 2016, and in the Episcopal Conference of Mexico he served on the Permanent Council, the commission before the Pontifical University of Mexico, the commission for interreligious dialogue and communion, and as bishop responsible for the Dimension for attention to the Armed Forces from 2018 to 2021 and referent for the Ordo Virginum in Mexico. In Hermosillo he opened a diocesan pastoral process in 2020 toward a Third Diocesan Pastoral Plan and announced pastoral visits to all parishes on 22 December 2021, with preparation in the first half of 2022, visits from the second half of 2022 to the first half of 2024, and evaluation in the second half of 2024.

After the fire at the Waldo's store in Hermosillo on 1 November 2025, which killed 23 people including six minors, he issued a first communiqué that afternoon expressing solidarity, encouragement, consolation, and prayer for the victims, and announced a letter to all priests and administrators of archdiocesan real property ordering detailed inspection of electrical installations, structures, safety measures, and emergency exits; on his instruction the Pastoral del Duelo set up listening centres staffed by psychologists, thanatologists, and priests.