Miguel Patiño Velázquez

Miguel Patiño Velázquez MSF (born September 30, 1938 in La Piedad ; † September 22, 2019 ) was a Mexican religious and Roman Catholic bishop of Apatzingán .

Life

Miguel Patiño Velázquez joined the Order of Missionaries of the Holy Family and was ordained a priest on June 16, 1963 .

Pope John Paul II appointed him Bishop of Apatzingán on April 9, 1981. The Apostolic Nuncio in Mexico, Girolamo Prigione , donated him episcopal ordination on May 21 of the same year ; Co- consecrators were José Fernández Arteaga , Bishop of Colima , and Victorino Alvarez Tena , Bishop of Celaya .

Pope Francis accepted his age-related resignation on November 17, 2014.

Miguel Patiño Velázquez was one of the people who campaigned publicly against organized crime in Mexico. He specifically blamed the groups La Familia Michoacana , Los Zetas , Nueva Generación and Los Caballeros Templarios for the sale and trafficking of drugs, extortion, kidnapping, robbery and other extortion of all kinds, as well as murder and violence against diocesan priests. In the year before his resignation, in 2013, he documented 920 dead, 280 survivors, 42 kidnapped, 238 missing, 3000 displaced families and 1200 robbed of their land in his diocese Apatzingán.

Web links

Entry for Miguel Patiño Velázquez on catholic-hierarchy.org

Individual evidence

^ Rinuncia del Vescovo di Apatzingán (Messico) e nomina del successore. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , November 17, 2014, accessed November 17, 2014 (Italian).
↑ Eugenia Jiménez Cáliz: “Murió Miguel Patiño Velázquez, el obispo de las denuncias“ proféticas ””. Contextos de La Palabra, September 22, 2019, accessed September 23, 2019 (Spanish).

predecessor	Office	successor
José Fernández Arteaga	Bishop of Apatzingán 1981-2014	Cristóbal Ascencio García

personal data
SURNAME	Patiño Velázquez, Miguel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Mexican clergyman, Roman Catholic bishop of Apatzingán
DATE OF BIRTH	September 30, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH	La Piedad
DATE OF DEATH	22nd September 2019

[1] Rinuncia del Vescovo di Apatzingán (Messico) e nomina del successore. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , November 17, 2014, accessed November 17, 2014 (Italian).

[2] Eugenia Jiménez Cáliz: “Murió Miguel Patiño Velázquez, el obispo de las denuncias“ proféticas ””. Contextos de La Palabra, September 22, 2019, accessed September 23, 2019 (Spanish).