Type: | archbishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | His Excellency, The Most Reverend |
Fabio Betancur Tirado | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Appointed: | May 3, 1982 |
Term End: | October 7, 2010 |
Predecessor: | José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez |
Successor: | Gonzalo Restrepo Restrepo |
Ordination: | September 6, 1964 |
Ordained By: | Tulio Botero Salazar |
Consecration: | July 3, 1995 |
Consecrated By: | Alfonso López Trujillo |
Birth Name: | Fabio Betancur Tirado |
Birth Date: | 30 October 1938 |
Birth Place: | Armenia, Antioquia, Colombia |
Death Place: | Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia |
Nationality: | Colombian |
Religion: | Roman Catholic |
Fabio Betancur Tirado | |
Dipstyle: | The Most Reverend |
Offstyle: | Your Excellency |
Relstyle: | Your Excellency |
Fabio Betancur Tirado (October 30, 1938 - November 20, 2011) was a Colombian ecclesiastic of the Catholic Church. He served as auxiliary bishop of Medellín, later became the first bishop of the diocese of La Dorada-Guaduas and later was archbishop of the archdiocese of Manizales, of which, once retired, he served as archbishop emeritus.
He was ordained a priest on September 6, 1964 in the chapel of the Major Seminary by the Archbishop of Medellín, Monsignor Tulio Botero Salazar. Betancur Tirado was named a bishop in 1982, resigning in 2010.[1]