Pedro Ignacio Wolcan Olano is from June 19, 2018 the bishop of Tacuarembó.

Biography

Pedro Wolcan was born in

Nueva Helvecia Nueva Helvecia is a city in Colonia Department of Uruguay. Nueva Helvecia (Spanish for "New Helvetia"; formerly known as Colonia Suiza) is west of Montevideo, the capital and largest city of Uruguay. It is a few kilometres from the coast where th ...

in 1953, and studied in the interdiocesan major seminary of

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and was ordained priest on September 21, 1986, being incardinated in the

diocese of Mercedes In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associate ...

. From 1986 to 1991 he was priest of the cathedral. In 2005 he became parish priest of Santísima Trinidad and, in 2006, parish priest of Nuestra Señora del Carmen. Since 2015 he was

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of the

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. On June 19, 2018 he was nominated bishop of Tacuarembó.Papa Francisco nombra un nuevo obispo para Uruguay
/ref> He was ordained bishop in the

Cathedral of Tacuarembó The Saint Fructuosus Cathedral ( es, Catedral de San Fructuoso) is the main Roman Catholic church building of Tacuarembó, Uruguay. It is the see of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tacuarembó since 1960. History The original church was establis ...

on the following 12 August by bishop

Carlos María Collazzi Irazábal Carlos María Collazzi Irazábal, S.D.B. (born 20 September 1947) is the current bishop of Mercedes. Life Carlos María Collazzi Irazábal was born in Rosario, Uruguay, on 20 September 1947, and entered the religious order of the Salesians of ...

References

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