Type: | bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | His Excellency, The Most Reverend |
José Fortunato Álvarez Valdez | |
Church: | Roman Catholic Church |
Appointed: | 30 December 2015 |
Predecessor: | José Guadalupe Torres Camposs |
Ordination: | 31 May 1998 |
Consecration: | 16 March 2016 |
Consecrated By: | Christophe Pierre, José Antonio Fernández Hurtado, Bishop José Isidro Guerrero Macías |
Birth Name: | Bishop José Fortunato Álvarez Valdéz |
Birth Date: | 8 November 1967 |
Birth Place: | Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico |
Death Place: | Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico |
José Fortunato Álvarez Valdez (8 November 1967 in Mexicali, Baja California – 7 November 2018 in Mexicali) was ordained to the priesthood in 1998. He served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gómez Palacio from 2016 until his death[1] a day shy of his 51st birthday.