Rodrigo Arango Velásquez

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

Life

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

Pope John Paul II appointed him in 1981 as Titular Bishop of CasaE in Numidia 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 López Trujillo; Co-consecrators were the Archbishop of Manizales, José de Jesús Rodriguez pimiento, and his religious brother, the first Pro- President of the Pontifical Council for the Family and later Cardinal Edouard Gagnon PSS.

In 1985 he was appointed second bishop of the Diocese of Buga in Colombia. He founded in Buga, among others, the Great Seminary and the " Instituto Julian Mendoza Guerrero ".

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