Roberto Rodríguez (August 14, 1936 – July 3, 2021) was an Argentine Roman Catholic prelate. He served as the

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of Pertusa from 1992 to 1998 and the fourth Bishop of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Villa María The Roman Catholic Diocese of Villa María ( la, Dioecesis Civitatis Mariae) is a Catholic diocese located in the city of Villa María in the Ecclesiastical province of Córdoba in Argentina. History On 11 February 1957, Pope Pius XII establish ...

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from 1998 to 2006. He was then appointed the sixth Bishop of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of La Rioja The Roman Catholic Diocese of La Rioja ( la, Dioecesis Rioiensis) is in Argentina and is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of San Juan de Cuyo. On Tuesday, July 9, 2013, Pope Francis accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Roman Cat ...

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, a position he held from 2006 until his retirement on July 9, 2013. Rodríguez was born in

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district,

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, on August 14, 1936. He was ordained as a

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on January 31, 1970, in the town of Cosquín, by the Archbishop of Córdoba Raúl Francisco Primatesta. He later completed a theology degree at

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. Roberto Rodríguez, the Bishop

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of La Rioja, died from

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at a hospital in Jesús María, Córdoba Province, on July 3, 2021, at the age of 85.

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