Rodrigo Arango Velásquez

Rodrigo Arango Velásquez

Rodrigo Arango Velásquez PSS (born March 4, 1925 in Betânia , Brazil , † December 27, 2008 in Tuluá , Valle del Cauca , Colombia ) was Bishop of Buga .

Life

Rodrigo Arango Velásquez joined the Congregation of the Sulpician at and studied in Manizales . In Montreal, Canada , he received a bachelor's degree in theology on June 3, 1950, the ordination . In 1957/1958 he was Regens at the Small Seminary in Manizales, from 1961 to 1963 Deputy Regens at the Seminary in Bogotá and from 1965 to 1967 Rector of the Major Seminary in Manizales, then Rector at the Major Seminary in Bogotá and Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana . From 1976 to 1980 he was the founding rain of the Grand Seminary in Brasília, the capital of Brazil.

Pope John Paul II appointed him titular bishop of Casae in Numidia in 1981 and appointed him auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Medellín . He received his episcopal consecration on March 25, 1981, the Archbishop of Medellín and later Cardinal Cardinal Alfonso Cardinal López Trujillo ; Co- consecrators were the Archbishop of Manizales, José de Jesús Pimiento Rodriguez , and his friar, the first Pro-President of the Pontifical Council for the Family and later Curial Cardinal, Edouard Gagnon PSS .

In 1985 he was appointed second bishop of the Buga diocese in Colombia. Among other things, he founded the Great Seminary and the “Instituto Julian Mendoza Guerrero” in Buga.

His resignation was granted in 2001 by Pope John Paul II.

Web links

• Entry for Rodrigo Arango Velásquez on catholic-hierarchy.org
• "Fallció tras sufrir una penosa enfermedad monseñor Rodrigo Arango Velásquez" , December 30, 2008 (Spanish)

predecessor	Office	successor
Julián Mendoza Guerrero	Bishop of Buga 1985-2001	Hernán Giraldo Jaramillo