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Oscar Urbina Ortega
Reference style The Most Reverend Spoken style Your Excellency Religious style Monsignor Posthumous style not applicable Oscar Urbina Ortega (born April 13, 1947) is a Colombian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the second and current Archbishop of Villavicencio.
Biography
Oscar Urbina Ortega was born in Arboledas, and ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Aníbal Muñoz Duque on November 30, 1973.
On March 8, 1996, he was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Bogotá and Titular Bishop of Forconium by Pope John Paul II. He received his episcopal consecration on the following April 13 from Archbishop Pedro Rubiano Sáenz, with Archbishops Paolo Romeo and Tarcisio Bertone, SDB, serving as co-consecrators. Urbina was later named Bishop of Cúcuta on November 9, 1999.
Pope Benedict XVI later named him the second Archbishop of Villavicencio on November 30, 2007, the thirty-fourth anniversary of his priestly ordination. Urbina succeeded José Ruiz Arenas, who was made a bishop in the same ceremony as the former in 1996, and was formally installed as Archbishop on January 25, 2008.
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Preceded by
Jesús Salazar GómezBishop of Cúcuta
1999–2007Succeeded by
Jaime Prieto AmayaPreceded by
José Ruiz ArenasArchbishop of Villavicencio
2007–presentSucceeded by
incumbent
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