Anselmo Zarza Bernal (June 4, 1916 – April 15, 2014) was a Mexican bishop in the

Roman Catholic Church The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwid ...

. Bernal was born in

Atlixco Atlixco () is a city in the Mexican state of Puebla. It is a regional industrial and commercial center but economically it is much better known for its production of ornamental plants and cut flowers. The city was founded early in the colonial peri ...

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in June 1916. He was ordained a priest in 1939. He was the Bishop of Linares, Nuevo León, from 1962 to 1966 and the Bishop of

León, Guanajuato León (), officially León de Los Aldama, is the most populous city and municipal seat of the municipality of León in the Mexican state of Guanajuato. In the 2020 census, INEGI reported 1,579,803 people living in the city of León and 1,721,21 ...

, from 1966 to 1992. Bernal died in

in April 2014 at the age of 97.

References

Bishops of Mexico

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