José Luis Serna Alzate (17 February 193628 September 2014) was a

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bishop. Born in the

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town of

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on 17 February 1936, José Luis Serna Alzate was

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on 23 December 1961. On 15 November 1978, Serna Alzate was appointed as both the

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, as well as the

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. His next appointments were as

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of Florencia on 9 December 1985, and then as bishop of the

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in the

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of Colombia. Serna Alzate resigned on 12 July 2002, and died twelve years later on 28 September 2014.

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