Antonio Moreno Casamitjana
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Antonio Moreno Casamitjana (July 9, 1927 – July 31, 2013) was a Chilean
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archbishop. Archbishop Moreno was born in Santiago in 1927, son of Antonio Moreno and María Casamitjana. As a youth, he participated in Parroquia Nuestra Señora de Andacollo, Santiago. Ordained to the priesthood in 1949, he was appointed bishop in 1986 and became archbishop of the Archdiocese of Concepción,
Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...
in 1989 and retired in 2007.Antonio Moreno Casamitjana
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1927 births 2013 deaths 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Chile 20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Chile 21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Chile Roman Catholic archbishops of Concepción {{Chile-RC-bishop-stub