Luis Adriano Piedrahíta Sandoval (7 October 1946 – 11 January 2021) was a Colombian

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bishop.

Life

Piedrahíta Sandoval was born in 1946 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1972. He served as

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of ''Centenarian'' and as

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of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cali,

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, from 1999 to 2007. He then served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Apartadó, Colombia, from 2007 to 2014 and as bishop of the

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, Colombia from 2014 until his death in 2021. He died on 11 January 2021, from

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during the COVID-19 pandemic in Colombia, having been diagnosed on 20 December 2020.

References

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