José de Jesús GarcÃa Ayala
José de Jesús García Ayala (* May 30, 1910 in La Ribera de Guadalupe, Jalisco, Mexico, † January 15, 2014 in Zamora) was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Campeche.
Life
García Ayala was born on a ranch called El Guayabo, by the river Lerma, five kilometers from the town of La Ribera de Guadalupe. He had six brothers.
On January 1, 1923, he entered the seminary of Zamora in the Mexican state of Michoacán, and received on 9 May 1937 in Zamora ordination. After pastoral activity in Paracho and Los Reyes he was Spiritual Director of the Seminary in Zamora.
In 1963 he became Pope John XXIII. appointed Titular Bishop of Lacedaemonia and auxiliary bishop in the Diocese of Campeche. He received his episcopal consecration Archbishop Luigi Raimondi, Apostolic Delegate to Mexico; Co-consecrators were Alberto Mendoza y Bedolla, Bishop of Campeche, and José Gabriel Anaya y Diez de Bonilla, Bishop of Zamora. Garcia Ayala was a Council Father of the third session of the Second Vatican Council. First Apostolic Administrator of Campeche he was in 1967 by Pope Paul VI. appointed Bishop of Campeche.
His resignation for health reasons was granted on February 9, 1982 by John Paul II. He was until his death the oldest living bishop of Mexico and the second oldest Episcopal world.