Edgar Hernando Tirado Mazo

Edgar Hernando Tirado Mazo, M.X.Y. (born 22 February 1939) is a Colombian Roman Catholic prelate who served as Vicar Apostolic of Tierradentro from 2003 to 2015. He is a member of the Yarumal Missionaries (M.X.Y.). He was also Superior General of the Yarumal Missionaries from 1996 to 2002.

Early life and priesthood Tirado Mazo was born in Medellín, Antioquia, on 22 February 1939. He attended the minor and major seminaries of the Institute of Foreign Missions of Yarumal, and completed the final two years of his theological studies at the Major Seminary of Bogotá. He subsequently became a member of the Institute of Foreign Missions of Yarumal and was ordained a priest on 29 November 1970.

Following his ordination, Tirado served as a missionary and parish priest in Venezuela from 1971 to 1978. From 1979 he held several positions in the Yarumal missionary institute, including director of the year of spirituality, member of its general council, and rector of the Major Seminary of Missions in Medellín. He was parish priest of Emaús in Medellín from 1989 to 1990, before serving in the Diocese of Potosí in Bolivia, where he was spiritual director of the diocesan seminary, diocesan consultor, and parish priest in Vitichi and surrounding areas.

In 1996, he was elected Superior General of the Yarumal Missionaries, a position he held until 2002. He subsequently returned to parish ministry in Vitichi, Bolivia.

Retirement On 5 June 2015, Pope Francis accepted Tirado Mazo's resignation from the pastoral government of the Apostolic Vicariate of Tierradentro in accordance with canon 401 §1 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law. He was succeeded by Óscar Augusto Múnera Ochoa.