The competences of the bioethicist in a ricoeurian perspective, the title of this article, is a completely novel result of a study of hermeneutic-analytical kind, which is entitled The contributions of ricoeurian hermeneutics to the epistemological statute of bioethics, which is still in gestation, in that the same Bioethics is a discipline that is only forty years old and continues to seek its epistemological foundation, which so far has been weaved based on the interdisciplinary contributions of philosophy, religion and the medical ethics science.The article presents a series of anthropological kind competencies identified as those responsible for clarifying issues concerning the decision-making from the bioethical standpoint.Five core competencies of bioethicists stand out, namely the homo capax actant or man capable of acting, the homo capax linguistic or man able to say, the narrator homo capax or man capable of narrating and narrate himself, the attributable homo capax or man capable of responsibility, the homo capax of promise or the man able to keep a pledge.