Jorge Eduardo Lozano
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Jorge Eduardo Lozano (born 10 February 1955) is a
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of the
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. He served as
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of
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from 2000 until 2005, when he became bishop of Gualeguaychú. He became coadjutor archbishop of San Juan de Cuyo in 2016 and succeeded to that see in 2017.


Life

Born in
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on 10 February 1955, Lozano was
ordained Ordination is the process by which individuals are Consecration in Christianity, consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the religious denomination, denominationa ...
to the priesthood by Cardinal Juan Carlos Aramburu, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, on 3 December 1982. On 4 January 2000,
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appointed him
auxiliary bishop An auxiliary bishop is a bishop assigned to assist the diocesan bishop in meeting the pastoral and administrative needs of the diocese. Auxiliary bishops can also be titular bishops of sees that no longer exist as territorial jurisdictions. ...
of
Buenos Aires Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− glob ...
and
titular bishop A titular bishop in various churches is a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese. By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox an ...
of Furnos Maior. He received his episcopal consecration on 25 March from Jorge Mario Bergoglio, archbishop of Buenos Aires, with the bishop of San Martín, Raúl Omar Rossi, and auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires, Mario José Serra, serving as
co-consecrators A consecrator is a bishop who ordains someone to the episcopacy. A co-consecrator is someone who assists the consecrator bishop in the act of ordaining a new bishop. The terms are used in the canon law of the Catholic Church, Lutheran Churche ...
.
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appointed him bishop of Gualeguaychú on 22 December 2005, and he was installed on 11 March 2006.
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named him coadjutor archbishop for the Archdiocese of San Juan de Cuyo on 31 August 2016, and he became its archbishop on 17 June 2017. On 6 November 2020 he was named secretary general of the Episcopal Conference of Latin America (CELAM).


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lozano, Jorge Eduardo 1955 births 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Argentina Living people Clergy from Buenos Aires Roman Catholic bishops of Gualeguaychú Roman Catholic archbishops of San Juan de Cuyo