Mario Revollo Bravo (19 September 1919 - 3 November 1995) was a Colombian prelate of the
Catholic Church
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who was
archbishop of Bogotá from 1984 to 1994. He was made a
cardinal in 1988.
Biography
Mario Revollo Bravo was born in
Genoa
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,
Italy
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, where his father was Colombian
consul
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in that city. He was the third of the six children. He was ordained 31 October 1943 in
Rome
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by Cardinal
Luigi Traglia.
Pope Paul VI
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appointed him an
auxiliary bishop of
Bogotá on 13 November 1973. He was elected president of the
Episcopal Conference of Colombia
The Episcopal Conference of Colombia is an administrative institution and permanence of the Catholic Church, composed of all the bishops of the dioceses of Colombia in a college, in communion with the Roman Pontiff and under his authority to ex ...
in 1978 and held that position until
Pope John Paul II
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transferred him to the
metropolitan see
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* Metropolitan borough, a form of local government district in England
* Metropolitan county, a ...
of Bogotá on 25 June 1984.
Pope John Paul II made Revollo Bravo
Cardinal-Priest
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of
San Bartolomeo all'Isola
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in the
consistory
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* Consistor ...
of 1988. He retired as archbishop in 1994. He died on 3 November 1995.
References
External links
Database of Catholic Information
1919 births
1995 deaths
Roman Catholic archbishops of Bogotá
20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Colombia
Colombian cardinals
Cardinals created by Pope John Paul II
Italian emigrants to Colombia
Major Seminary of Bogotá alumni
Roman Catholic bishops of Bogotá
Roman Catholic archbishops of Nueva Pamplona
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