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Place of Birth: El Delicioso, Chihuahua, Mexico
About Jorge A. Rojas
- Jorge Alfonso Rojas Ornelas (born 27 September 1940) was a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1991 to 1996. Rojas was born in Delicias, Chihuahua, Mexico.
- He was raised in Chihuahua City.
- Rojas convinced his parents, though none of them were Latter-day Saints, to send him to the LDS Church-owned Academia Juárez in Colonia Juárez so he could learn English.
- Rojas lived with Willard and Bertha Shupe while in Colonia Juárez, and they convinced him to attend English-language LDS Church meetings in order to assist him in learning English. Rojas was baptized a member of the LDS Church in 1959.
- he received degrees in education and physical education from the University of Chihuahua and also studied at New Mexico State University. Rojas was a teacher at the LDS Church-owned Benermerito School in Mexico City when it opened in 1964.
- Rojas married Marcella Burgos, a recent Benemerito graduate, in 1969 in the Mesa Arizona Temple. Rojas continued to work for the Church Educational System and later in area administrative offices.
- In 1988, Rojas and his wife set up a business translating technical manuals from English for American companies with factories in Mexico. Rojas and his wife Marcella have five children. Rojas served on two occasions as a stake president of the LDS Church.
- He also served two terms as a Regional Representative.
- Rojas was president of the Mexico Guadalajara Mission. Rojas became a member of the church's Second Quorum of the Seventy in 1991.
- He was released as a member of the quorum and as a general authority of the church in October 1996.Rojas was called as an Area Seventy of the church in 2004.
- He has since served in the presidency of the Mexico North Area of the church.
- From 2008 to 2011, Rojas was the president of the Guayaquil Ecuador Temple.
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