Aníbal Muñoz Duque (3 October 1908 – 15 January 1987) was a Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Bogotá.

Biography

He was born in

Santa Rosa de Osos Santa Rosa de Osos is a middle city and municipality of Colombia located in the northern of the department of Antioquia. Bounded on the north with the municipalities of Yarumal and Angostura, on the east with Guadalupe and Carolina del Princip ...

, Colombia as the son of José María Muñoz and Ana Rosa Duque. He was educated at the

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of Santa Rosa de Osos. He was ordained to the priesthood 19 November 1933. After his ordaination he was a faculty member and prefect of the

Minor Seminary A minor seminary or high school seminary is a secondary day or boarding school created for the specific purpose of enrolling teenage boys who have expressed interest in becoming Catholic priests. They are generally Catholic institutions, and de ...

of the Institute of Missions of Yarumal from 1933 until 1937. He was then promoted to

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and vice-superior general of the Institute of Yarumal. In 1950 he was Pro-

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of the

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of Santa Rosa de Osos until 1951.

Episcopate

Pope Pius XII appointed him Bishop of Socorro y San Gil on 8 April 1951. He was consecrated on 27 May by the Nuncio to Colombia. He was transferred to the diocese of

Bucaramanga Bucaramanga () is the capital and largest city of the department of Santander, Colombia. Bucaramanga has the fifth-largest economy by GDP in Colombia, has the lowest unemployment rate and has the ninth-largest population in the country, with 6 ...

on 18 December 1952. He served there until he was promoted to the

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Nueva Pamplona Pamplona (pronounced ) is a municipality and city in Norte de Santander, Colombia. It is also the fifth most populated municipality in the department. History Colonization The town was founded on 1 November 1549 as Nueva Pamplona del Valle del ...

on 3 August 1959. He attended the Second Vatican Council in Rome. He was elected President of the

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of Colombia in 1964, serving until 1972. He was appointed

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of the archdiocese of Bogotá on 15 April 1967 and transferred to the

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of ''Cariana'' on 30 March 1968. He hosted the visit of

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to Bogotá in August 1968 on the occasion of the 39th International Eucharistic Congress; it was the first papal visit to Latin America. He was named

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of Bogotá on 2 February 1969. He succeeded to the archdiocese of Bogotá on 29 July 1972. He was named the

military vicar A military ordinariate is an ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Catholic Church, of the Latin or an Eastern church, responsible for the pastoral care of Catholics serving in the armed forces of a nation. Until 1986, they were called "military ...

of Colombia the next day.

Cardinalate

He was created and proclaimed

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of ''

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'' in the

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of 5 March 1973 by Pope Paul. He took part in the

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s that elected

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and

Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...

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and

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. He resigned the pastoral government of the archdiocese of Bogotá on 25 June 1984. He died in 1987. He is buried in the Santa Fe De Bogota Cathedral near the chapel of El Sagrario.

References

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Biography

Episcopate

Cardinalate

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