Antonio Montero Moreno (28 August 1928 – 16 June 2022) was a Spanish

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prelate. Montero Moreno was born in

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and was ordained to the priesthood in 1951. He served as auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Seville and was

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of ''Regiana'' from 1969 to 1980. Montero then served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Badajoz, Spain. from 1980 to 1994. He then served as archbishop of the

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mérida-Badajoz The Diocese of Badajoz was a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Spain, created in 1255. In 1994 it became the Archdiocese of Mérida-Badajoz.

, Spain, from 1994 until his retirement in 2004.

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