Arturo Antonio Szymanski Ramírez (17 January 1922 – 29 May 2018) was a Mexican
prelate of the
Roman Catholic Church.
Szymanski was born in Tampico and ordained a priest on 22 March 1947. Szymanski was appointed
Coadjutor Bishop
A coadjutor bishop (or bishop coadjutor) is a bishop in the Catholic, Anglican, and (historically) Eastern Orthodox churches whose main role is to assist the diocesan bishop in the administration of the diocese. The coadjutor (literally, "co ...
of the
Diocese of San Andrés Tuxtla as well as titular bishop of Cerasus on 20 April 1960 and was consecrated on 21 June 1960. Symanski succeeded bishop Jesús Villareal y Fierro a short time after his death on 21 March 1965 to the Diocese of San Andrés Tuxtla. On 13 August 1968 Szymanski was appointed bishop of the
Diocese of Tampico and would remain at the Tampico diocese until 1987. Szymanski was appointed archbishop of the
Archdiocese of San Luis Potosí on 27 January 1987 where he would remain until his retirement on 20 January 1999.
References
External links
Catholic-HierarchyArchdiocese of San Luis Potosí
(Spanish)
1922 births
2018 deaths
20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Mexico
People from Tampico, Tamaulipas
Mexican people of Polish descent
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