New Our Lady of Guadalupe Province Leaders Begin Their Mandate
By the Communication Office of the Province of Our Lady of Guadalupe
(Argentina – Brazil – Chile)
On Tuesday afternoon, June 23, 2026, the Our Lady of Guadalupe Province (23 voting capitulars) elected Father Antônio Ruy SSS as its fifth Provincial Superior. Wednesday morning, June 24, 2026, on the solemnity of Saint John the Baptist, of Our Lady
of Guadalupe Province, it elected its fifth provincial council in the city of Espirito Santo do Pinhal (São Paulo State) at the Assuncioinistas Retreat Center, within the Diocese of São João da Boa Vista, the diocese of our esteemed former Superior General and now bishop of this diocese, Most Reverend Eugenio Barbosa Martins, SSS.
The councilors for the newly elected Provincial, Father Antônio Ruy SSS, (Brazil – center in the above photo) are as follows:
• Provincial Vicar: Father Ricardo Julian A. Durán SSS (Chile – right of provincial)
• Provincial Treasurer: Father Renivaldo Bruno da Cruz SSS (Brazil – far right)
• First Consultor: Father José Elissandro Santos de Santana SSS* (Brazil – left of provincial)
• Second Consultor: Father Willian Fausto Lourenço SSS* (Argentina – far left)
• Delegate to the 2029 General Chapter: Father Willian Fausto Lourenço SSS
• Alternate Delegate to the 2029 General Chapter: Father José Elissandro Santos de Santana SSS
(* indicates members of the 2025 Eymard English Institute)
Presentation to Our Lady of Guadalupe Province –
Argentina, Brazil, and Chile
By John Thomas Lane SSS
Provincial – Province of Saint Ann (USA)
Good afternoon to you all, dear brothers. I am so grateful and happy to be here, especially as a member of the Sacramentinos Americas Conference (SAC). Thank you for your invitation to attend one another’s SAC chapters, your hospitality, and your kindness as we speak together in four languages at our dining and meeting tables
As the SAC, we have met regularly, and now with Father Gustavo, with the hope of doing vocation ministry together, using the great resources you have and translating them, and to also have the hope of another Eucharistic Congress in South America with one another, and to support our Aggregation of the Blessed Sacrament and the students of the Congregation. This Congress or retreat dream is so that they know more about the Life in the Eucharist Retreat and this important catechesis and formation program that assists our Eucharistic spirituality. 
Photos: LEFT: The three current provincials of the SAC, Father Ruy (left), and Father Gustavo Chaguendo Ceballos (right) from Colombia – Peru, the Province of Saint John XXIII;
RIGHT: A gift from our USA province – of Saint Ann – to their province with the image of Saint Ann made into a tapestry by Joan Steinman of Houston, Texas, USA
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