Fernando Cuevas is a priest Spaniard who is called ‘Tinder Priest’ because, in addition to fulfilling the tasks of his parish, he helps to find a partner among young faithful Catholics and already has an impressive number of 270 happy marriages and no divorces.
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The Spanish priest from the city of Valencia began his career as a matchmaker 14 years ago and without intending to, purely good people.
Then, he was walking with a young practicing Catholic named Salva, when he was approached by a group of young women. Struck by the beauty of the girls and knowing that they shared his Catholic values, Salva asked the priest to play matchmaker and introduce him to one of them.
Five months later, Salva married one of the girls, Geles, a student of Fine Arts, and began Fernando Cuevas’ career as ‘Tinder Priest’.
Since then, he has taken his role as a matchmaker for practicing Catholics very seriously.
hard to find a partner
Fernando Cuevas realized that Western society was increasingly secularized and that practicing Catholics found it difficult to find a partner who shared their core values and beliefs.
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“People who are very committed to their faith are looking for someone who is the same,” says the priest.
“It is not something secondary that is not important, it is something fundamental. But the society is very secularized and people have tremendous religious ignorance and lack of interest. They have no interest in the things of God because they have not been educated like that. Those who do want to live their faith attach great importance to it and want to find someone like that.”assures.
form is key
Over the years, Father Fernando developed a special form that he asks people to fill out to maximize their chances of finding someone suitable.
Contains data such as name, surname, age, year of birth, height, studies, current job, hobbies, virtues, defects, things you look for in a partner and, obviously, degree of commitment to the Church
Some of those things sound much more important than others, but the ‘Tinder Priest’ says that the two most essential factors for a couple to be successful are height – the man has to be taller than the woman – and where you live. .
Fernando Cuevas, the ‘Tinder Priest’.
As great a couple as it may seem on paper, if the candidates live far from each other, the relationship is unlikely to work out.
Father Fernando spends much of his time analyzing those forms, paying special attention to personality traits and interests, and once he finds a good match, he sends each candidate a file with the information and photos of the other. person, and if they both approve, he gives the man the woman’s number so they can get in touch.
For him, that’s where his job as a matchmaker ends.
has a great reputation
The ‘Tinder Priest’ has built a great reputation among single practicing Catholics not only in Spain, but also in other Central and South American countries.
He receives about 20 requests a day from people looking for love, and he tries to help them all. He claims to have made thousands of matches in the last 14 years, and prides himself on being the matchmaker behind 270 happy marriages, with 0 recorded divorces.
Fernando Cuevas is not responsible for the happiness of the couples he matches. He just had the inspiration to introduce them, but he never gave them relationship or marriage advice, so credit is all his.
He is convinced that the success of his pairings is due to the fact that these “are very spiritual people and are very used to giving and giving.”
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