José Guadalupe Padilla Lozano

José Guadalupe Padilla Lozano ( born December 12, 1920 in San Miguel el Alto, † September 8, 2013 in Veracruz ) was bishop of Veracruz.

Life

José Guadalupe Padilla Lozano came after the visit of the Minor Seminary of San Juan de los Lagos in the diocesan seminary. After studying philosophy and theology received on 20 April 1946, the ordination. He was active in numerous offices of the Diocese of Guadalajara.

Pope John XXIII. appointed him on 15 January 1963, the first bishop of Veracruz. The Archbishop of Guadalajara, Cardinal José Garibi y Rivera consecrated him bishop on 19 March 1963; Co-consecrators were Francisco Javier Nuño y Guerrero, Koadjutorerzbischof of Guadalajara, and Manuel Pío López Estrada, Archbishop of Veracruz- Jalapa.

He was a Council Father and participants of the last three sessions of the Second Vatican Council.

In 1971 he founded the Secretariat for evangelization and catechesis. He was committed to the new evangelization and structuring of the deaneries. In 1990, Pope John Paul II guest in his diocese.

On 18 February 2000, Pope John Paul II accepted his resignation age-related.