Eladio Acosta Arteaga

Eladio Acosta Arteaga CIM ( born April 9, 1916 in La América, † January 30, 2012 in Medellín ) was a Colombian religious clergyman and Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe de Antioquia.

Life

Eladio Acosta Arteaga occurred after school visits in Belén and La América in Medellín and Juniorato de San Pedro of the Congregation of the Congregation of Jesus and Mary in and studied in " Seminarios Eudistas de San Pedro y Usaquén " Catholic theology, philosophy and canon law at the Pontifical University Xaveriana in Bogotá. He received on 7 August 1949, the ordination. During his priestly ministry, he also held various management positions in the seminars of his order. Many years he was rector of the seminary " Santo Tomás de Aquino " of the diocese of Santa Rosa de Osos and Rector of the " Seminarios Regentados " of his order. He was also Provincial Superior and the Congregation of Jesus and Mary in Colombia.

Pope Paul VI. appointed him on 6 March 1970 as Bishop of Antioquia. The Archbishop of San Antonio Angelo Palmas consecrated him on 12 April of the same year the bishop; Co-consecrators were Tulio Botero Salazar CM, Archbishop of Medellín, and Aníbal Muñoz Duque, Koadjutorerzbischof of Bogotá. After elevation of the bishopric to archbishopric of Santa Fe de Antioquia by Pope John Paul II, he became the first Archbishop of Santa Fe de Antioquia.

On October 10, 1992 Pope John Paul II accepted his resignation age-related.