Isidoro del Carmen Mora Ortega

Mora was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Matagalpa on 20 September 2003.^[2][3] Since then he held, among others, the following positions: parish vicar of St. Joseph in Matiguás and Our Lord of Esquipulas (2003–2004); parish administrator of St. Isidore and St. Dionysius in Matagalpa (2004–2006) and parish priest of St. John the Baptist in Muy Muy (2007–2008).

Since 2009 he has been parish priest of San Ramon Nonato and vicar general of his native Diocese of Matagalpa.^[4]

Fr. Mora was appointed as the second Bishop of Siuna by Pope Francis on 8 April 2021.^[2] and was consecrated a bishop on 26 June 2021 by Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, archbishop of Managua, assisted by bishops Pablo Ervin Schmitz Simon and Rolando José Álvarez Lagos at the Cathedral of Our Lord of Esquipulas in Siuna.^[3]

On the night of 20 December 2023, Bishop Mora was arrested by the Nicaraguan government headed by president Daniel Ortega, one day after participating in a mass celebrating the 99th anniversary of the Diocese of Matagalpa, whose head, Bishop Rolando José Álvarez Lagos, was arrested after refusing to leave the country.^[5] On 14 January 2024, Ortega freed Mora, along with Álvarez, 15 priests, and two seminarians and exiled them to Vatican City.^[6]