Type: | Bishop |
Pedro Ignacio Wolcan Olano | |
Honorific-Prefix: | His Excellency |
Bishop of Tacuarembó | |
Church: | Roman Catholic Church |
Archdiocese: | Montevideo |
Diocese: | Tacuarembó |
Term: | June 19, 2018 |
Predecessor: | Julio César Bonino |
Ordination: | September 21, 1986 |
Birth Date: | 21 October 1953 |
Birth Place: | Nueva Helvecia |
Previous Post: | Vicar general in Mercedes |
Coat Of Arms: | Coat of arms of Pedro Ignacio Wolcan Olano.svg |
Nationality: | Uruguayan |
Pedro Ignacio Wolcan Olano | |
Deathstyle: | none |
Pedro Ignacio Wolcan Olano is from June 19, 2018[1] the bishop of Tacuarembó.
Pedro Wolcan was born in Nueva Helvecia in 1953, and studied in the interdiocesan major seminary of Montevideo and was ordained priest on September 21, 1986, being incardinated in the diocese of Mercedes.
From 1986 to 1991 he was priest of the cathedral. In 2005 he became parish priest of Santísima Trinidad and, in 2006, parish priest of Nuestra Señora del Carmen.
Since 2015 he was vicar general of the diocese. On June 19, 2018 he was nominated bishop of Tacuarembó.[2] He was ordained bishop in the Cathedral of Tacuarembó on the following 12 August by bishop Carlos María Collazzi Irazábal.