Víctor Hugo Martínez Contreras (29 March 1930 – 26 August 2020) was a Guatemalan

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archbishop. Martínez Contreras was born in

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and was ordained to the priesthood in 1956. He served as auxiliary bishop of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Huehuetenango The Roman Catholic Diocese of Huehuetenango, Guatemala was first erected 22 July 1961, as the Territorial Prelature of Huehuetenango. It is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Los Altos Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán. It was elevated as a dioc ...

, Guatemala, from 1970 to 1975 and as bishop of the diocese from 1975 to 1987. He served as bishop from 1987 to 1996, and then the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Altos, Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán, Guatemala from 1996 to 2007.Victor Hugo Martinez Contreras
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