Héctor Epalza Quintero P.S.S. (14 June 1940 – 2 February 2021) was a Colombian

Roman Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institut ...

bishop. Epalza Quintero was born in

Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuel ...

and was ordained to the priesthood in 1965. He served as bishop of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Buenaventura The Roman Catholic Diocese of Buenaventura () is a Latin suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cali, Cali in Colombia, yet depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. ...

, Colombia from 2004 until 2017.Héctor Epalza Quintero
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