Antonio Arregui Yarza (born June 3, 1939, in Oñate) is the

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Emeritus of

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Ecuador. Yarza is an

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of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas ''Angelicum'' in

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, where he earned a doctorate in canon Law. Archbishop Arregui Yarza was Auxiliary Bishop of

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and Titular Bishop of Auzegera from January 4, 1990, to July 25, 1995. He served as the Bishop of Ibarra from July 25, 1995, to May 7, 2003. He was appointed

on May 7, 2003, replacing Archbishop Juan Ignacio Larrea Holguín. Yarza retired on September 24, 2015. As of September 2012, he was the President of the Conferencia Episcopal Ecuatoriana (the Roman Catholic Conference of Bishops of Ecuador). On September 18, 2012, he was named by

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as one of the papally-appointed Synod Fathers for the upcoming October 2012 Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the New

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Catholic Hierarchy: Archbishop Antonio Arregui Yarza
1939 births Living people 21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Ecuador Opus Dei members 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Ecuador University of Navarra alumni Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas alumni People from Oñati Roman Catholic archbishops of Guayaquil Roman Catholic bishops of Quito {{Ecuador-RC-archbishop-stub

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