Aníbal Muñoz Duque (3 October 1908 – 15 January 1987) was a Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Bogotá.

Biography

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as the son of José María Muñoz and Ana Rosa Duque. He was educated at the

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of Santa Rosa de Osos. He was ordained to the priesthood 19 November 1933. After his ordination he was a faculty member and prefect of the

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of the Institute of Missions of Yarumal from 1933 until 1937. He was then promoted to rector and vice-superior general of the Institute of Yarumal. In 1950 he was Pro-

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of the

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of Santa Rosa de Osos until 1951.

Episcopate

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appointed him Bishop of Socorro y San Gil on 8 April 1951. He was consecrated on 27 May by the

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. He was transferred to the diocese of

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on 18 December 1952. He served there until he was promoted to the

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of Nueva Pamplona on 3 August 1959. He attended the Second Vatican Council in Rome. He was elected President of the

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in 1964, serving until 1972. He was appointed

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of the

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on 15 April 1967 and transferred to the

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of ''Cariana'' on 30 March 1968. He hosted the visit of

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to Bogotá in August 1968 on the occasion of the 39th International Eucharistic Congress; it was the first papal visit to Latin America. He was named Coadjutor Archbishop of Bogotá on 2 February 1969. He succeeded to the

of Bogotá on 29 July 1972. He was named the military vicar of Colombia the next day.

Cardinalate

He was created and proclaimed

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of '' San Bartolomeo all'Isola'' in the

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of 5 March 1973 by Pope Paul. He took part in the

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s that elected

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and

Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II (born Karol Józef Wojtyła; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 16 October 1978 until Death and funeral of Pope John Paul II, his death in 2005. In his you ...

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and

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. He resigned the pastoral government of the archdiocese of Bogotá on 25 June 1984. He died in 1987. He is buried in the Santa Fe De Bogota Cathedral near the chapel of El Sagrario.

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Biography

Episcopate

Cardinalate

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