José Dimas Cedeño Delgado Explained

Type:Archbishop
Honorific-Prefix:His Excellency
José Dimas Cedeño Delgado
Archbishop Emeritus of Panamá
Church:Roman Catholic Church
Archdiocese:Panamá
Term Start:18 April 1994
Term End:18 February 2010
Predecessor:Marcos Gregorio McGrath, C.S.C.
Successor:José Domingo Ulloa Mendieta, O.S.A.
Ordination:25 June 1961
Ordained By:Francisco Beckmann, C.M.
Consecration:17 May 1975
Consecrated By:Edoardo Rovida
Birth Date:23 July 1933
Birth Place:Peña Blanca, Panama
Birth Name:José Dimas Cedeño Delgado
José Dimas Cedeño Delgado
Dipstyle:His Excellency
Offstyle:Your Excellency
Relstyle:Archbishop
See:Panamá

José Dimas Cedeño Delgado (born 23 July 1933) was the Roman Catholic archbishop of the Archdiocese of Panamá from 1994 to 2010, when his resignation was accepted by Pope Benedict XVI for reasons of age. Benedict appointed one of the Archbishop's Auxiliary Bishops, Bishop Jose Domingo Ulloa Mendieta, O.S.A., to serve as the next Metropolitan Archbishop of Panama.

Cedeño was ordained a priest in 1961 and was consecrated a bishop in 1975 when he became the bishop of the Diocese of Santiago de Veraguas. Cedeño succeeded Marcos Gregorio McGrath as the archbishop of Panama on 18 April 1994.

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