Enrique R. Falabella

Who is Enrique R. Falabella?

Enrique Rienzi Falabella has been a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since 2007. He is the second native Guatemalan to serve as a general authority of the LDS Church, the first was Carlos H. Amado, beginning in 1992.

Falabella was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala to Udine Falabella and his wife, Leonor Arellano Falbella. Udine Falabella was a candy maker. Enrique's mother died when he was five years old. At the age of 12, Falabella and his surviving family members converted to Mormonism. In 1967, Falabella's father, Udine, became the LDS Church's first stake president in Guatemala. Udine Falabella had been remarried to Graciella Aguirre. Udine Falabella would later serve as a Regional Representative of the Twelve, patriarch and president of the Guatemala City Guatemala Temple.

As a young adult, Falabella served as a Mormon missionary in the Central American Mission of the church. In 1975, he married Blanca Lidia Sanchez in the Mesa Arizona Temple. They are the parents of five children.

Falabella earned a degree in agronomy from the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, and later earned a degree in marketing at the University of Costa Rica. Prior to his call as a general authority, he was employed by Bayer in Guatemala as an agronomical engineer.