Jorge Manuel López (5 June 1918 – 22 December 2006) was a

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. He was born in

Rosario Rosario () is the largest city in the central provinces of Argentina, Argentine province of Santa Fe Province, Santa Fe. The city is located northwest of Buenos Aires, on the west bank of the Paraná River. Rosario is the third-most populous ci ...

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, where he was ordained

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in 1942. He was appointed auxiliary bishop in the city's diocese on 20 May 1968. He then led the Archdiocese of Corrientes, starting on 5 April 1972, and was appointed Archbishop of Rosario on 19 January 1983, where he served for ten years. He retired from this post upon reaching the age of 75, on 20 November 1993. López was the vice-president of the

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and served in several episcopal commissions, even after his retirement. He presided the Episcopal Council for the Causes of Saints until November 2005. He died in 2006 at the age of 88, in the residence of the Sisters Servants of Jesus in Rosario.

References

* * La Capital, 22 December 2006
''Falleció monseñor López, arzobispo emérito de Rosario''
20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Argentina 1918 births 2006 deaths People from Rosario, Santa Fe Roman Catholic archbishops of Corrientes Roman Catholic archbishops of Rosario Roman Catholic bishops of Rosario {{argentina-RC-archbishop-stub