Antonio José López Castillo (July 9, 1945 – July 18, 2021) was a Venezuelan

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and

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. He served as

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of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Maracaibo The Archdiocese of Maracaibo () is an archdiocese in Venezuela. Since November 2000, its Archbishop has been Ubaldo Ramón Santana Sequera. The city of Maracaibo, the second largest in Venezuela, has a population of approximately 2,800,000. The ...

from 1988 to 1992 and the Bishop of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Barinas The Roman Catholic Diocese of Barinas () is a suffragan Latin diocese, in the ecclesiastical province of Mérida, in western Venezuela's land-locked Barinas state. Its cathedral episcopal see is the Marian catedral de Nuestra Señora del Pilar, ...

from 1992 to 2001. He then served as the

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of the

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Calabozo The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Calabozo () is a Roman Catholic archdiocese in Calabozo, Venezuela. It was a diocese until 1995. History The original diocese of Calabozo, embracing the section of Guárico and portions of the sections of Apure ...

from 2001 to 2007 and the Archbishop of the

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Barquisimeto The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Barquisimeto () is a Latin Catholic Metropolitan archdiocese in northwestern Venezuela's Lara state. History * Established on 7 March 1863 as Diocese of Barquisimeto, on territory split off from the then Dioc ...

from 2007 until his retirement in March 2020. Archbishop Emeritus Antonio José López Castillo died from a

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Maracaibo Maracaibo ( , ; ) is a city and municipality in northwestern Venezuela, on the western shore of the strait that connects Lake Maracaibo to the Gulf of Venezuela. It is the largest city in Venezuela and is List of cities in Venezuela by population ...

on July 18, 2021, at the age of 76.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lopez Castillo, Antonio Jose 1945 births 2021 deaths Venezuelan Roman Catholic bishops People from Maracaibo