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'' Agripino Núñez Collado (9 November 1933 – 22 January 2022) was a Roman Catholic priest and scholar from the

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Biography

Núñez Collado was born in La Galeta,

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, and was ordained a

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on 19 March 1959 in Zamora,

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. He began his academic work at the

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as teacher after its foundation on 9 September 1962; the next year he was promoted to vice-rector. He served as rector of the university from 1970 to 2014. Núñez Collado died on 22 January 2022, at the age of 88 from COVID-19.

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