Gerardo Antonio Zerdín Bukovec (born 11 June 1950 in Lendava) is a Slovenian priest and Apostolic Vicar of San Ramón in Peru.
Life
Gerardo Antonio Zerdín Bukovec joined the
Order
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of
Franciscans
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(OFM) and received the
priestly ordination
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on 9 November 1975.
Pope John Paul II
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In his you ...
appointed him on 19 January 2002 as Apostolic Coadjutor Vicar of
San Ramón and
titular bishop
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of
Thucca terebenthina.
The
Apostolic Vicariate of San Ramón,
Julio Ojeda Pascual, gave him the bishop's
ordination
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on 14 April of that year; Co-consecrators were Rino Passigato, Apostolic Nuncio in Peru, and Victor de la Peña Perez, Apostolic Vicar of Requena.
[''Le Petit Episcopologe'' Issue 167, Number 14,174]
References
1950 births
Slovenian Roman Catholic bishops
Living people
21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Peru
Roman Catholic bishops of San Ramón
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