Luis Adriano Piedrahita Sandoval Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Most Reverend
Luis Adriano Piedrahíta Sandoval
Bishop of Santa Marta
Church:Catholic Church
Archdiocese:Diocese of Santa Marta

Luis Adriano Piedrahíta Sandoval (7 October 1946  - 11 January 2021) was a Colombian Catholic bishop.

Life

Piedrahíta Sandoval was born in 1946 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1972. He served as titular bishop of Centenarian and as auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cali, Colombia, from 1999 to 2007. He then served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Apartadó, Colombia, from 2007 to 2014 and as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Marta, Colombia from 2014 until his death in 2021.[1]

He died on 11 January 2021, from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Colombia, having been diagnosed on 20 December 2020.[2]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bpies.html Luis Andriano Piedrahíta Sandoval
  2. News: Urieles . Roger . Murió el obispo de Santa Marta por covid-19 . . Spanish . 12 January 2021 . 12 January 2021.