José Rafael Barquero Arce (27 October 1931 – 29 November 2020) was a Costa Rican

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bishop. Barquero Arce was born in

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and was ordained to the priesthood in 1956. He served as titular bishop of 'Arindela' and was auxiliary bishop of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Alajuela The Diocese of Alajuela ( la, Dioecesis Alaiuelensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Costa Rica. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of San J ...

, Costa Rica, from 1979 to 1980. He then served as bishop of the diocese from 1980 until 2007.Diocese of Alajuela
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