Background
Tenorio was born in Tilapan, Veracruz, Mexico.
Tenorio was born in Tilapan, Veracruz, Mexico.
He was one of the original area authorities called in 1995. 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.
They are the parents of five children. Initially, Tenorio worked in the publishing industry.
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 Mexico City 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 recorder in the Mexico City Temple. He was serving in this position at the time of his call as a general authority.
He was a sealer in the Mexico City Temple when it opened.
He also served as president of the Mexico Tuxtla Gutiérrez Mission from 1990 to 1993. From 1995 to 2000, Tenorio was an area seventy, serving in the Mexico South Area Presidency for part of that time.
In April 2007, Tenorio became a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy and served as a counselor in the Mexico Area Presidency from 2007 to 2012.