VATICAN CITY, 13 FEB 2009 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Bishop Ismael Rueda Sierra of Socorro y San Gil, Colombia, as metropolitan archbishop of Bucaramanga (area 5,397, population 1,264,900, Catholics 1,234,201, priests 212, permanent deacons 32, religious 674), Colombia. The archbishop-elect was born in Suaita, Colombia in 1950, he was ordained a priest in 1981 and consecrated a bishop in 2001. He succeeds Archbishop Victor Manuel Lopez Forero, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.
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