Pedro Pablo Elizondo

Pedro Pablo Elizondo Cárdenas L.C. was a Mexican Roman Catholic prelate. He was Bishop of Cancún-Chetumal from 2004 to 2025.

Biography

Pedro Pablo Elizondo Cárdenas was born on 4 September 1949 in San José de Gracia, Michoacán, Mexico. He entered the Legionaries of Christ novitiate in 1966 and professed his perpetual vows in 1974. He completed his theological and philosophical studies in Rome, where he earned degrees at the Pontifical Gregorian University and the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas. In 1982, he was ordained a priest in Rome.
In 2004, Elizondo was appointed as a territorial prelate of Cancún and Chetumal by Pope John Paul II and was consecrated as a bishop.
In 2020, Pope Francis elevated the prelature to the status of a diocese and Elizondo became its first diocesan bishop.
Elizondo died from a sudden heart attack in Mérida, on 22 January 2026, at the age of 76.