Eladio Acosta Arteaga (9 April 1916 – 30 January 2012) was a Colombian

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. Arteaga was born in La América,

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in 1916 and was ordained a priest on 7 August 1949 from the religious order of

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. Arteaga was appointed bishop of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe de Antioquia on 6 March 1970 and ordained in April. He would remain at the diocese until his retirement on 10 October 1992. He died in 2012, aged 95

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