Type: | bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | The Most Reverend |
Gerardo Antonio Zerdín Bukovec | |
Honorific-Suffix: | O.F.M. |
Apostolic Coadjutor Vicar of San Ramón Titular Bishop of Thucca terebenthina | |
Church: | Roman Catholic |
See: | San Ramón |
Predecessor: | Julio Ojeda Pascual |
Consecration: | 14 April 2002 |
Consecrated By: | Julio Ojeda Pascual |
Rank: | Bishop |
Birth Date: | 11 June 1950 |
Birth Place: | Lendava |
Nationality: | Slovenian |
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Gerardo Antonio Zerdín Bukovec (born 11 June 1950 in Lendava) is a Slovenian priest and Apostolic Vicar of San Ramón in Peru.[1]
Gerardo Antonio Zerdín Bukovec joined the Order of Franciscans (OFM) and received the priestly ordination on 9 November 1975. Pope John Paul II appointed him on 19 January 2002 as Apostolic Coadjutor Vicar of San Ramón and titular bishop of Thucca terebenthina.[2] [3] [4] The Apostolic Vicariate of San Ramón, Julio Ojeda Pascual, gave him the bishop's ordination on 14 April of that year; Co-consecrators were Rino Passigato, Apostolic Nuncio in Peru, and Victor de la Peña Perez, Apostolic Vicar of Requena.[5]