About Gregorio Garavito Jiménez
Lived 1919 – 2016 (aged 96). Gregorio Garavito Jiménez was a Colombian catholic priest and catholic bishop.
Gregorio Garavito Jiménez S.M.M. (March 9, 1919 – February 16, 2016) was a Colombian bishop of the Catholic Church. At the time of his death, he was one of oldest Colombian Catholic bishops.
Garavito was born in Junín, Colombia and was ordained a priest on July 24, 1942, from the religious order of Missionaries of the Company of Mary. Monsignor Garavito was appointed auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Villavicencio as well as titular bishop of Cyparissia on December 4, 1961, and consecrated on February 11, 1962.
He was appointed archbishop of the Archiocese of Villavicencio on April 26, 1969, and retired on May 3, 1994.
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Colombian Catholic bishop (1919–2016)
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Gregorio Garavito Jiménez was born on 9 March 1919 in Colombia.
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Gregorio Garavito Jiménez died on 16 February 2016.
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Gregorio Garavito Jiménez was a catholic priest and catholic bishop.
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Gregorio Garavito Jiménez was Colombian.
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