Antonio José González Zumárraga (March 18, 1925 – October 13, 2008) was an Ecuadorian

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of the

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. González Zumárraga was born in Pujili, Ecuador. He was ordained priest on July 29, 1951, following studies at the San José seminary in

Quito Quito (; ), officially San Francisco de Quito, is the capital city, capital and second-largest city of Ecuador, with an estimated population of 2.8 million in its metropolitan area. It is also the capital of the province of Pichincha Province, P ...

and the

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, Spain, where he obtained a doctorate in

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. He was made auxiliary bishop of Quito on May 17, 1969 (with the titular diocese of

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) and was consecrated as bishop in Quito on June 15, 1969, by Cardinal

Pablo Muñoz Vega Pablo Muñoz Vega, SJ (23 May 1903 – 3 June 1994) was an Ecuadorian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Quito from 1967 until his resignation in 1985. He was a member of the Jesuits and was made a cardinal in 1969. His cause of ...

, SJ,

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. He was made Bishop of Machala on June 30, 1978, and then

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on June 28, 1980. He succeeded to full governance of the Archdiocese on June 1, 1985. He was created as a Cardinal Priest (Cardinal Priest of Santa Maria in Via) in 2001 by

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gonzalez Zumarraga, Antonio Jose 1925 births 2008 deaths People from Pujilí Ecuadorian cardinals Pontifical University of Salamanca alumni Cardinals created by Pope John Paul II Roman Catholic bishops of Machala Roman Catholic bishops of Quito Roman Catholic archbishops of Quito