Father Jairo Guidini is the current Parish Priest of Saint Tarcisius. He has extensive experience working in South America, particularly in Asuncion, Paraguay, where he served as the parish priest of the Parish of Las Mercedes and chaplain of immigrants in the Archdiocese of Asunción. While still studying theology in São Paulo, Brazil, he worked with Spanish-speaking migrants on the weekends. He finished his theology and philosophy degree in Sao Paulo, which he had already begun at the University of Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Father Jairo has held various leadership positions, including being the Executive Director of the Scalabrini International Migration Network (SIMN) in New York and the Executive Secretary of the Pastoral of Human Mobility in the Peruvian Episcopal Conference. He also worked as the Director of the Casa Beato Juan Bautista Scalabrini in Lima, Peru, before leading the SIMN.
In addition, Father Jairo helped to found the FEDIPAR (Federation of Immigrants in Paraguay) and reactivated the Scalabrinian Foundation in Paraguay of the Scalabrini International Migration Network (SIMN) under the name Scalabrini Foundation for Migration (FSM). The FSM is the only foundation recognized by government migration authorities as a representative of migrants in civil society.
Before coming to Asuncion, Father Jairo spent three years in González Catán, in Buenos Aires, as Diocesan Delegate of Migrations in the Diocese of La Ferrere and pastor of the Fatima Parish, where he was also the chaplain of the Portuguese community in Argentina.