Antonio Troyo Calderón (October 18, 1923 – December 1, 2015) was a Costa Rican

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. Troyo Calderón was born in Cartago and was ordained a priest on November 30, 1947. Calderón was appointed auxiliary bishop to the Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica on August 27, 1979, as well as titular bishop of Burca, and ordained bishop September 21, 1979, by Román Arrieta Villalobos, Archbishop of

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. Troyo Calderón retired from the archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica on July 13, 2002. He died in December 2015, at the age of 92.

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(Spanish) 1923 births 2015 deaths People from Cartago Province 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Costa Rica 20th-century Roman Catholic titular bishops Roman Catholic bishops of San José de Costa Rica {{CostaRica-RC-bishop-stub