Luis Rojas Mena (June 21, 1917 – March 18, 2009) was a Mexican
Bishop
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of the
Roman Catholic Church
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.
Rojas Mena was born in
Jalpa de Cánovas Jalpa may refer to:
* Jalpa, Jharkhand, a small town and railway station in Jharkhand, India
* Jalpa, Palpa, Nepal
*Jalpa, Zacatecas, Mexico
*Lamborghini Jalpa
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,
Guanajuato
Guanajuato (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Guanajuato ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Guanajuato), is one of the 32 states that make up the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 46 municipalities and its capital city i ...
, and ordained on March 31, 1945. He was appointed
Auxiliary Bishop of the
Diocese of Culiacán on May 6, 1968,
along with Titular Bishop of Accia, and was ordained a bishop on June 16, 1968. Rojas Mena was appointed as Bishop of
Diocese of Culiacán on August 20, 1969, and retired as such on October 4, 1993.
See also
*
Diocese of Culiacán
References
External links
Catholic-Hierarchy
1917 births
2009 deaths
20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Mexico
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