Arnulfo Mejía Rojas

According to reports the Bishop of Tlaxcala, Francisco Moreno Barron died in the early hours of Monday April 18, 2016.

According to some media, on 20 December 2015, after celebrating a Mass in the so-called "boat" had a series of disappointments with some citizens of the community, which ultimately led to a stroke and emergency hospitalization. He remained in the hospital for about three weeks until he left to live in the house of his sister, Adelaida Mejia Rojas, in Contla John Cuamantzi.

Arnulfo Mejía Rojas (15 August 1956 in Santa Cruz Aquiahuac, Tetlatlahuaca, Mexico – 18 April 2016 in José María Morelos Buenavista) was an engineer, architect, teacher, historian, painter, artist and Catholic priest, most well known for being the creator of The Boat of the Faith.

Arnulfo Mejia Rojas was born into a humble family of eleven children in the community of Santa Cruz Aquiahuac, in the municipality of Tetlatlahuca, in the state of Tlaxcala, on 15 August 1956. After several attempts to enter the Seminary of Tlaxcala, he was ordained as a priest in 1979, then spent a short period of time as vicar at the Cathedral of Tlaxcala, until he was sent in the same year to the Parish of Apostolos Andreas, in the northwest state. A marginalized area, comprising 14 separated by various valleys and hills each communities. He always used the dicharacheria. Sometimes he had more authority than the president of community, because with various festivities and celebrations were community organizing. Shortly after arriving at that community, he began working in raising pigs and cattle. At the same time he became a Professor of subjects such as Philosophy, Ethics and Values, Psychology, among others in the same community COBAT. He stayed for 31 years until his retirement in 2015.