José Dimas Cedeño Delgado (born 23 July 1933) was the

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of the Archdiocese of Panamá from 1994 to 2010, when his resignation was accepted by

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for reasons of age. Benedict appointed one of the Archbishop's Auxiliary Bishops,

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, O.S.A., to serve as the next Metropolitan Archbishop of Panama. Cedeño was ordained a

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in 1961 and was consecrated a bishop in 1975 when he became the

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of the Diocese of Santiago de Veraguas. Cedeño succeeded Marcos Gregorio McGrath as the archbishop of

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on 18 April 1994.

External links

Metropolitan Archdiocese of Panamá
* http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bcedeno.html Catholic-Hierarchy.org Profile 1933 births 20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Panama 21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Panama Living people Roman Catholic bishops of Santiago de Veraguas Roman Catholic archbishops of Panamá Panamanian Roman Catholic archbishops {{Panama-RC-archbishop-stub