Eduardo Vincente Mirás (14 November 1929 – 24 February 2022) was an Argentine

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bishop. Mirás was born in Argentina and was ordained to the priesthood in 1952. He served as

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of ''Ambia'' and as auxiliary bishop of the

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from 1984 to 1994 and as archbishop of the

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, Argentina, from 1994 to 2005 when he retired. Mirás died from complications of

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in Rosario, Santa Fe, on 24 February 2022, at the age of 92, during the

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