Luis Sáinz Hinojosa (21 June 1936 – 8 October 2022) was a Bolivian

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of the

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. Luis Sáinz Hinojosa was born on 21 June 1936 in

Tiquipaya Tiquipaya is a town in the Cochabamba Department in central Bolivia. It is the seat of the Tiquipaya Municipality, the third Municipalities of Bolivia, municipal section of the Quillacollo Province. It is known as the "city of flowers". The town h ...

, Bolivia. He joined the

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s on 17 January 1961 and was ordained a priest on 26 August 1962. On 8 May 1982,

Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...

appointed him auxiliary bishop of

Cochabamba Cochabamba ( ay, Quchapampa; qu, Quchapampa) is a city and municipality in central Bolivia in a valley in the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cochabamba Department and the fourth largest city in Bolivia, with a population of 63 ...

and

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. He received his episcopal consecration on 31 July 1982 from the

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in Bolivia,

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, with Gennaro Maria Prata Vuolo, Archbishop of Cochabamba, and Luis Aníbal Rodríguez Pardo, Archbishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra as co-consecrators. On 24 February 1987, he was appointed Archbishop of La Paz and was installed there on 19 April. He resigned from that office on 1 August 1996 and then continued pastoral work, first in a village and then in

Quillacollo Quillacollo is the capital of Quillacollo Province in Cochabamba Department, Bolivia. The municipality was established on 14 September 1905 under the Presidency of Ismail Montes. Population and growth The city of Quillacollo is located westward ...

. On 12 September 2001 he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Cochabamba and titular archbishop of Iunca in Mauretania.

Pope Benedict XVI Pope Benedict XVI ( la, Benedictus XVI; it, Benedetto XVI; german: link=no, Benedikt XVI.; born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, , on 16 April 1927) is a retired prelate of the Catholic church who served as the head of the Church and the sovereign ...

accepted his resignation for reasons of age on 29 August 2012.

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Luis Sáinz Hinojosa at Catholic Hierarchy
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sainz Hinojosa, Luis 1936 births 2022 deaths Bolivian Roman Catholic archbishops Bolivian Friars Minor Franciscan bishops People from Quillacollo Province Roman Catholic bishops of Cochabamba Roman Catholic archbishops of La Paz Bishops appointed by Pope John Paul II