Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga (8 April 1942 – 2 August 2022) was a Colombian

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prelate.

Biography

Castro Quiroga was born in Colombia and was ordained to the priesthood in 1967. He served as the

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of ''Aquae Flaviae'' and the vicar apostolic of San Vicente from 1986 to 1998 and as archbishop of the

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, Colombia from 1998 until his retirement in 2020. He died as a result of

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