The General Secretariat of Regnum Christi sent a letter on February 6, 2026 announcing the election of the general directors of the consecrated branches, which led to the formation of the new General Board of Directors of the Regnum Christi Federation.
The new College is composed of the Director General of the Legionaries of Christ, Fr. Carlos Gutiérrez López, L.C., the Director General of the Consecrated Women of Regnum Christi, Nancy Nohrden, who was re-elected for a second term, and the Director General of the Consecrated Laity of Regnum Christi, Félix Gómez Rueda, who was also re-elected for a second term, together with Horacio Gómez and David Zárate, lay people who assist them in this service of co-responsibility.
The General Board of Directors is responsible for ensuring that the Federation fulfills its purposes as set forth in number 4 of the Bylaws. Its main governing functions are:
- Implement the guidelines and indications given by the General Convention.
- To ensure that all, especially the territorial colleges, fulfill their responsibilities according to their own law.
- To guide the consolidation, projection and expansion of the apostolic activity of the Federation.
- Encourage international formation initiatives, particularly for formators of the associated faithful, and promote vocation ministry.
- To supervise the administration of the Federation and promote a healthy and solidary economy.
- Promote appropriate institutional communication.
(EFRC, n. 79)
A service that springs from discernment
In the General Chapter of the Legionaries of Christ, was elected Chief Executive Officer Carlos Guitérrez López, L.C., who assumes this apostolic service for the next six years. This election gives him the responsibility of accompanying the life and mission of the Congregation, strengthening its contribution to Regnum Christi as a whole.
Originally from Hermosillo, Sonora (Mexico), Father Carlos is 51 years old. He entered the Congregation in 1999 and was ordained to the priesthood in 2009. Throughout his ministry he has served in various countries in the Americas and Europe, with pastoral and governmental responsibilities in Chile, Italy, Colombia, Venezuela and Mexico. Until his election, he served as Territorial Director of Northern Mexico.
His academic background combines studies in industrial and systems engineering at the Monterrey Institute of Technology, a bachelor's degree in philosophy and theology at the Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum and a master's degree in psychology at Divine Mercy University in the United States, which has marked his service in the fields of accompaniment, training and government.
Since the early years of his priesthood, Father Carlos has exercised his ministry in formation and accompaniment of adolescents, youth and families. He was assistant to the ECYD in Santiago de Chile, collaborated in the General Secretariat and supported the territorial apostolic action in Colombia and Venezuela. Later he assumed government responsibilities as community superior in Bogota, territorial councilor in Venezuela and director of ECYD in Monterrey.
Between 2018 and 2022, he served as Territorial Director of Colombia-Venezuela, a stage in which he accompanied communities and apostolic works in a particularly complex social context. Since 2022 he exercised the territorial direction of Northern Mexico, a service that now concludes to assume the responsibility at the head of the Congregation.
The Consecrated Sisters of Regnum Christi, in their III General Assembly,re-elected Nancy Nohrden as general manager. The assembly of consecrated women was a time of grace to renew their fidelity to the charism, strengthen community life and rekindle their apostolic zeal.
Nancy Nohrden was born on February 4, 1974 in Bellevue, a town near Seattle, in the United States. She grew up in Southern California and completed her undergraduate studies in Massachusetts. He went on to pursue a degree in philosophy at Franciscan University of Steubenville and worked for a law firm. He became a lawyer in 1998, at the age of 24. After three years of formation, his first apostolate was vocation promotion in Germany.
From 2007 to 2011 she worked with young lay women of Regnum Christi in Saint Louis, Missouri. In 2011 she moved to Atlanta, Georgia, as director of formation at Pinecrest Academy and was named director of the Atlanta community of consecrated women in 2012. On November 25, 2012, she was named territorial director of Consecrated Women in North America. She served on the Regnum Christi North American Territorial Committee from 2014-2019 and was vice president of the Regnum Christi Federation's territorial board of directors since Sept. 15, 2019.
In 2020, she was elected Director General of the Consecrated Women of Regnum Christi and a member of the General Board of Directors of the Regnum Christi Federation, assuming the presidency of this body in May 2025. She completed a master's degree in Strategic Communication and Leadership at Spring Arbor University during her term in office and on February 2, 2026, was re-elected as Director General for the 2026-2032 sexennium.
For their part, the Consecrated Laity of Regnum Christi, gathered in their II General Assembly, The assembly was also a path of discernment that seeks to strengthen its specific contribution to the common apostolate, with its characteristic accent. The assembly was also a path of discernment that seeks to strengthen its specific contribution to the common apostolate, with its characteristic accent.
Born February 9, 1966 in Madrid, Spain. From an early age he lived in Mexico City. He was consecrated on August 27, 1989. He was a student at Dublin Oak Academy for one year and attended high school at Instituto Cumbres in Mexico City. He holds a degree in industrial engineering, a master's degree in economics and business, a master's degree in finance and a master's degree in philosophy, and a doctorate in leadership and management of higher education institutions from Universidad Anáhuac México.
He was a member of ECYD and a lay member of Regnum Christi. He participated in various projects, such as Generación Empresarial Mexicana, Gente Nueva and business congresses, among others. He was territorial administrator of the territories of Mexico and Monterrey. He was an advisor to the Board of Governors of the Regnum Christi University Network. Since 2017 he has worked at Universidad Anahuac Mexico as vice rector of finance and administration and since 2013 he has been general counselor of the Consecrated Laity of Regnum Christi.
Since 2020, he has been Director General of the Consecrated Laity of Regnum Christi, a member of the General Board of Directors of the Regnum Christi Federation and of the Council of the Anahuac University Network. In the II General Assembly, he was re-elected Director General for a second term. Read here the note on his re-election.
Walking together, caring for communion
The new government is entrusted with the task of safeguarding and promoting the common mission set forth in the Statutes, in continuity with the path laid out by the General Convention of the Regnum Christi Federation. «May the integration of the gifts and the complementarity of each one, under the action of the Holy Spirit, generate joy, hope and a renewing impulse,» adds the letter of the General Secretariat.
Horacio Gómez, one of the lay associates who attends the General Management College, shares that «it fills him with joy to be able to form this new management college as a grace and an opportunity to walk together, work as a team as a true apostolic body and strengthen the communion among our vocations. With hope and illusion, I hope that this service will be an occasion to live and model a leadership in the style of Jesus Christ: close, humble and missionary, which promotes an authentic family unity and a real co-responsibility at the service of the mission».
For his part, David Zarate, also a layman who attends the General Management College, commented that «the hope and illusion that I would like to transmit to you as we begin this service of joint governance is that we can be a true community of apostles working in communion, sharing the same charism as brothers in the mission entrusted to us.
The General Plenary
Likewise, the General Councils of the Consecrated Women, of the Consecrated Laity and of the Legionaries of Christ have been elected, thus configuring the General Plenary of Regnum Christi, together with the lay people elected at the General Convention of 2024, who will accompany the discernment and orientation of the common journey of the spiritual family. The General Plenary for the next six years will be composed of:
General Council of the Legionaries of Christ: Father Hernán Jiménez, L.C., Father Michael Brisson, L.C., Father Miguel Cavallé, L.C., Father Robert Presutti, L.C., Father Adolfo Güémez, L.C. and Father David Daly, L.C.
General Council of Consecrated Women of Regnum Christi: Perla Guadalupe González de la Fuente, Eugenia Álvarez Espinoza, Kathleen Murphy and Camila Melo.
General Council of Consecrated Laity from Regnum ChristiJosé Mateos Brito, Guillermo Campillo, Antonio Maza, Emilio Martínez and Radek Biernacki.
Lay people elected at the 2024 General Convention: Cathie Zentner, Cristina Regueira, Guillermo Narro, David Zarate, Horacio Gomez and Maria Fioretta Bini Smaghi.
The Federation's Statutes establish that the General Plenary is an organ of assistance to the Directing College. Its collaboration expresses the spirit of communion that characterizes the Federation (cf. EFRC n. 90).
As a spiritual family and apostolic body, we continue to prayerfully accompany the development of each Assembly and Chapter, which continue their work during these days as spaces for discernment and apostolic renewal. Likewise, our gratitude is extended to each of the members of the government for the period 2020-2026. Their dedication to the mission has been a true gift for all of Regnum Christi.
We invite to conduct an hour of Eucharistic adoration to ask for the Assemblies and for the Chapter, personally and in the nearest parish.
