Abelardo Alvarado Alcántara (June 8, 1933 – July 3, 2021) was a Mexican

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who served as the auxiliary bishop of the

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from 1985 until 2008. He was also the Secretary General of the

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(CEM) from 1997 to 2004. Mexico City Archbishop

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appointed Alvarado as

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of the

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, which is based at the Military Chaplaincy, adjacent to the Hospital Central Militar Mexico. Alvarado also served as the president of the

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of the Nuevo Criterio, the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Mexico City, from 1993 to 1998. Bishop emeritus Abelardo Alvarado Alcántara died on July 3, 2021, at the age of 87. His funeral mass was held at the

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