José Luis Serna Alzate (17 February 193628 September 2014) was a

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bishop. Born in the

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town of Aranzazu on 17 February 1936, José Luis Serna Alzate was

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on 23 December 1961. On 15 November 1978, Serna Alzate was appointed as both the

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Florencia, Caquetá Florencia (, en, Florence) is a municipality and capital city of the Department of Caquetá, Colombia. It is the most populous city in southwest Colombia. It lies on the Orteguaza River which flows into the Caqueta River. Its population is 16 ...

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, as well as the

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. His next appointments were as

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of Florencia on 9 December 1985, and then as bishop of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Líbano–Honda The Roman Catholic Diocese of Líbano–Honda ( la, Libanus-Hondanus) is a diocese located in northern Tolima Department in Colombia, with sees in the cities of Líbano, Tolima, Líbano and Honda, Tolima, Honda in the ecclesiastical province of L ...

in the Tolima Department of Colombia. Serna Alzate resigned on 12 July 2002, and died twelve years later on 28 September 2014.

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