Luis Sáinz Hinojosa (21 June 1936 – 8 October 2022) was a Bolivian

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of the

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. Luis Sáinz Hinojosa was born on 21 June 1936 in Tiquipaya, Bolivia. He joined the

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s on 17 January 1961 and was ordained a priest on 26 August 1962. On 8 May 1982,

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appointed him

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and

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. He received his episcopal consecration on 31 July 1982 from the

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in Bolivia,

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, with Gennaro Maria Prata Vuolo, Archbishop of Cochabamba, and

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, Archbishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra as co-consecrators. On 24 February 1987, he was appointed Archbishop of La Paz and was installed there on 19 April. He resigned from that office on 1 August 1996 and then continued pastoral work, first in a village and then in

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. On 12 September 2001 he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Cochabamba and titular archbishop of

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accepted his resignation for reasons of age on 29 August 2012.

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Luis Sáinz Hinojosa at Catholic Hierarchy
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sainz Hinojosa, Luis 1936 births 2022 deaths Bolivian Roman Catholic archbishops Bolivian Friars Minor Franciscan bishops People from Quillacollo Province Roman Catholic bishops of Cochabamba Roman Catholic archbishops of La Paz Bishops appointed by Pope John Paul II