Julio César Martín-Trejo

Martín was born on Cozumel Island into the larger families of politicians of Lebanese Maronite origins (Martín, Borge, Joaquín). Although raised as an atheist, Martín became a Christian (Anglican) at age 20. After studies in archaeology at the National School of Anthropology and History in Mexico City, he discerned a call to ordained ministry which led him to pursue theological studies at San Andres Anglican Seminary in the same city before a year of theological studies at Huron University College, at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, and later at La Salle University in Mexico City. From 1997 to 1998 he conducted research at Episcopal Divinity School, in Cambridge, Mass., for a book on Richard Hooker’s XVI century Anglican theology. As part of continuing education, he is one of the few priests (only fifteen each year) who have been invited to Windsor Castle, for the special clergy courses offered by St George's House (Windsor Castle), for which he researched on episcopal leadership roles. He is enrolled in an M. A. in Theology and Religious Studies at Atlantic School of Theology, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Martín is proficient in Western European languages and is the author of many published articles about politics and social issues. He is married and has one child.

Ordained deacon in 1991, Martin served briefly in Prescott, Ontario, before going back to Mexico and ministering in indigenous rural congregations and in urban parishes from 1992 to 1997. By 1999 he was teaching at the Seminary in Mexico City while at the same time ministering as Youth Chaplain, editor of the diocesan magazine, and as representative of the Church to government agencies which led him to appear as a habitual guest on TV and radio programs and meet personalities of the political and religious worlds. He was dean of the Anglican Cathedral in Mexico City for ten years (2001-2010) where he was chaplain to organizations supporting sex workers,[13] before a five-year ministry as rector in Jasper, Alberta, followed by five years as rector of one of the largest parishes in Nova Scotia. In 2018 Martín failed in his bid to become the chaplain of University of King's College chapel, at Dalhousie University even though he was one of two final candidates. Elected bishop coadjutor in March 2019 for the Diocese of the Southeast in the Anglican Church of Mexico,[14][15][16][17] he was consecrated on September 21 same year by the bishop of Northern Mexico, the bishop of the Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church, and the suffragan bishop for Europe of the Church of England.[18] The participation of these bishops means that the episcopal lines of apostolic succession from the Old Catholic Church of Utrecht, the (Anglican) Church of Ireland, and the Church of England have entered the Mexican episcopate derived from the Scottish episcopal lineage. Martín was declared diocesan bishop on March 10, 2020.