Eloy Tato Losada (6 September 1923 – 18 January 2022) was a Spanish-born Colombian

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of the

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, participant of the

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and bishop of

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between 1969 and 1994.

Biography

Tato Losada was born in Villadequinta, Galicia,

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. He studied at Astorga seminary and was ordained a priest on 15 June 1946. On 8 October 1952 joined the Mission Seminary in

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and in 1953 he devoted himself to the Instituto Español de San Francisco Javier para Misiones Extranjeras order. That year he was appointed

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of San Jorge, Colombia as well as Titular bishop of Cardicium on 3 May 1960 and ordained a bishop on 25 July 1960. He participated in the four sessions of the

.Eloy Tato Losada, obispo dimisionario de Magangué (Colombia), falleció en O Barco de Valdeorras
Tato Losada was appointed bishop of

on 25 April 1969. After 25 years, Tato resigned on 31 May 1994 due to health problems. He then returned to Galicia, where he retired in his hometown. He died on 18 January 2022, at the age of 98 in the hospital of

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