Carlos Quintero Arce (February 13, 1920 – February 15, 2016) was a Mexican
prelate
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of the
Catholic Church
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.
Priest
Quintero Arce was born in Etzatlán, Mexico, and was ordained a priest on April 8, 1944, for the
Archdiocese of Guadalajara. He was appointed Bishop of the
Diocese of Ciudad Valles on March 20, 1961, and consecrated on May 14, 1961. Quintero Arce was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of the
Archdiocese of Hermosillo on March 3, 1966, and succeeded as bishop upon retirement of Archbishop Juan María Navarrete y Guerrero on August 18, 1968. Quintero Arce retired from the Archdiocese of Hermosillo on August 20, 1996. He died at his home in
Hermosillo
Hermosillo (), formerly called Pitic (as in ''Santísima Trinidad del Pitic'' and ''Presidio del Pitic''), is a city in the center of the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora. It is the municipal seat of the Hermosillo municipality, the state's ...
, Sonora, on February 15, 2016, at the age of 96.
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Catholic-HierarchyArchdiocese of Guadalajara
Archdiocese of Hermosillo
20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Mexico
Quintero Arce, Carlos
1920 births
2016 deaths
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