Juan Rodolfo Laise

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(22 February 1926 – 22 July 2019) was an Argentine

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bishop. Rodolfo Laise was born in

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and was ordained to the priesthood in 1949. He was appointed titular bishop of Iomnium and coadjutor bishop of the San Luis, Argentina, in 1971. He then served as bishop of the diocese from 1971 until

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accepted his resignation for reasons of age on 6 June 2001.

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