José Luis Castro Medellín M.S.F. (21 June 1938 – 24 January 2020) was a Mexican bishop of the

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who was bishop of

Tacámbaro Tacámbaro is a municipality in the western part of the Mexican state of Michoacán. Its largest city and municipal seat is Heroica Tacámbaro de Codallos. The city is located at . In the 2020 census, the municipality's population was 81,105, po ...

from 2002 to 2014.

Biography

Castro Medellín was born in Mineral de La Noria, Sombrerete, Zacatecas,

Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...

, in the Archdiocese of Durango, on 21 June 1938, the third of five children. After studying at the College of St. John Baptist de la Salle, he studied for the priesthood at the seminary of the in

Uruapan Uruapan () is the second largest city in the Mexico, Mexican state of Michoacán. It is located at the western edge of the Tarascan Plateau, Purépecha highlands, just to the east of the Tierra Caliente (Mexico), Tierra Caliente region. Since the c ...

. In 1971 after two years of study he earned a licentiate in moral theology at the

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in Rome. He took his final vows as a member of the Missionaries on 10 January 1960 and was ordained a priest as a member of the Missionaries on 16 June 1963 in Uruapan by Bishop José Gabriel Anaya y Diez de Bonilla. From 1961 to 1963 he was general treasurer of the Missionaries, from 1964 to 1967 he taught its novices, and from 1973 to 1985 he was superior general. From 1985 to 1991 he was vicar and general treasurer; from 1991 to 1997 councilor and general treasurer. From 1992 to 2002 he was vicar for religious and consecrated life in the diocese of Zamora, serving also from 1997 to 2002 as pastor of the Sagrada Familia parish in

. On 25 October 2002,

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named him bishop of Tacámbaro. He received his episcopal consecration on 3 December from Archbishop

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, Apostolic Nuncio to Mexico.

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accepted his resignation on 22 August 2014. He died on 24 January 2020.

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* 1938 births 2020 deaths People from Zacatecas 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Mexico {{Mexico-RC-bishop-stub