Francisco Raúl Villalobos Padilla (1 February 1921 – 3 February 2022) was a Mexican prelate of the

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Biography

Villalobos Padilla was born in Guadalajara, and ordained a priest on 2 April 1949. He was appointed auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saltillo on 4 May 1971 as well as Titular bishop of Columnata and consecrated on 4 August 1971. He was appointed bishop of Saltillo on 4 October 1975, retiring from the post on 30 December 1999. He turned 100 in 2021, and died from

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, on 3 February 2022, at the age of 101.

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