Vatican City, 15 May 2014 (VIS) – The
Holy Father has:
- appointed Fr. Gabriel Angel Villa
Vahos as bishop of Ocana (area 18,000, population 627,000, Catholics
427,000, priests 72, permanent deacons 4, religious 66), Colombia.
The bishop-elect was born in Sopetran, Colombia in 1962 and was
ordained a priest in 1989. He holds a licentiate in dogmatic theology
from the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, and has served in a
number of pastoral roles, including: priest of the parish of “Nuestra
Senora de la Merced” in Yarumal, rector of the “Santo Tomas de
Aquino” diocesan major seminary, director of the department for
ministers of the Episcopal Conference of Colombia, vice rector of the
“Fundacion Universitaria Catolica del Norte”, and diocesan
administrator of Santa Rosa de Osos. He is currently director of the
the department for vocations and ministers of the Latin American
Episcopal Conference (CELAM). He succeeds Bishop Jorge Enrique Lozano
Zafra, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese,
upon reaching the age limit, was accepted by the Holy Father.
- appointed Bishop Enrique Diaz Diaz as
coadjutor bishop of San Cristobal de Las Casas (area 36,821,
population 1,734,000, Catholics 1,325,000, priests 105, permanent
deacons 320, religious 252), Mexico. Bishop Diaz Diaz was previously
auxiliary of the same diocese.
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