Héctor Epalza Quintero P.S.S. (4 June 1940 – 2 February 2021) was a Colombian

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bishop. Epalza Quintero was born in

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

and was ordained to the priesthood in 1965. He served as bishop of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Buenaventura The Roman Catholic Diocese of Buenaventura ( la, Bonaventuren(sis)) is a Latin suffragan diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of Cali in Colombia, yet depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Its cathedr ...

, Colombia from 2004 until 2017.Héctor Epalza Quintero
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