Oscar Urbina Ortega Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Most Reverend
Oscar Urbina Ortega
Archbishop of Villavicencio
Church:Roman Catholic Church
Archdiocese:Villavicencio
See:Villavicencio
Appointed:30 November 2007
Term Start:25 January 2008
Predecessor:José Ruiz Arenas
Other Post:President of the Colombian Episcopal Conference (2017-)
Ordination:30 November 1973
Ordained By:Aníbal Muñoz Duque
Consecration:13 April 1996
Consecrated By:Pedro Rubiano Sáenz
Birth Name:Oscar Urbina Ortega
Birth Date:13 April 1947
Birth Place:Arboledas, Norte de Santander, Colombia
Previous Post:Titular Bishop of Forconio (1996-99)
Auxiliary Bishop of Bogotá (1996-99)
Bishop of Cúcuta (1999-2007)
Vice-President of the Colombian Episcopal Conference (2014-17)
Oscar Urbina Ortega
Deathstyle:not applicable

Oscar Urbina Ortega (born 13 April 1947) is a Colombian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the second and current Archbishop of Villavicencio.

Biography

Oscar Urbina Ortega was born in Arboledas, and ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Aníbal Muñoz Duque on 30 November 1973. From 1986 to 1994 he was Rector of the Major Seminary of Bogotá, the main seminary of the Archdiocese of Bogotá.[1]

On March 8, 1996, he was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Bogotá and Titular Bishop of Forconium by Pope John Paul II. He received his episcopal consecration on the following 13 April from Archbishop Pedro Rubiano Sáenz, with Archbishops Paolo Romeo and Tarcisio Bertone, SDB, serving as co-consecrators. Urbina was later named Bishop of Cúcuta on 9 November 1999.

Pope Benedict XVI later named him the second Archbishop of Villavicencio on 30 November 2007, the thirty-fourth anniversary of his priestly ordination. Urbina succeeded José Ruiz Arenas, who was made a bishop in the same ceremony as the former in 1996, and was formally installed as Archbishop on 25 January 2008.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Historia - Seminario Mayor de Bogotá. seminariobogota.arquibogota.org.co. 2016-06-02.