Octaviano Tenorio

Who is Octaviano Tenorio?

Octaviano Tenorio Domínguez has been a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since 2007. He was one of the original area authorities called in 1995.

Tenorio was born in Tilapan, Veracruz, Mexico. When he was fifteen years old, he and his parents joined the LDS Church while they were living in Río Bravo, Tamaulipas. Tenorio was baptized in the Río Bravo river. A few years later, Tenorio became a branch president in the church. Then he moved to Mexico City with his job with Readers Digest Mexico. In Mexico City he met Rosa Elva Valenzuela González, a native of Nuevo Casas Grandes, who he married in December 1973 in Colonia Dublán; they were sealed in the Mesa Arizona Temple in January 1974, about one week after their marriage. They are the parents of five children.

Initially, Tenorio worked in the publishing industry. He later worked as the manager of the LDS Church's Genealogical Service Center in Mexico. This was the first international Genealogical Service center that the church set up and Tenorio was its first supervisor. Tenorio supervised the Genealogical Service Center until 1984 when he became the first recorder of the México City México Temple. He later served in various positions related to running welfare and other church programs at the area level. In 1999, as Welfare Services Area manager he was involved in distributing food to flood victims. He later returned to serving as temple recorder in the Mexico City Temple. He was serving in this position at the time of his call as a general authority.