Father Hector Angel Perez was born in Pinar del Rio, Cuba on July 9, 1972 to Rodolfo Perez and Dinorah Lopez. He is the second of a family of two children. He completed in 1984 his primary education at Jose Marti School in San Luis, Pinar del Rio. He then completed in 1987 his secondary education in Raul Sanchez School in Pinar del Rio. He completed his college education in 1990 at Hermanos Barcon School and later he graduated in 1993 from Primero de Mayo Technical Institute in Pinar del Rio. He then entered the Hector Alfredo Pineda Saldivar University in Havana City, and in 1994 he left the University to join the religious Congregation of the Passionist in Havana City. After six months he was sent to Queretaro, Mexico, for two years where he did the novitiate and professed his religious vows in June of 1997. As a Passionist he went to Guatemala City in Central America to study Philosophy for two years.