Luis del Castillo Estrada, S.J. (born 21 June 1935, in

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) is a

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cleric.

Biography

Luis del Castillo was ordained priest on 30 July 1966 in the

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. On 9 April 1988 he was appointed

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of Tarasa in Numidia and

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. He was appointed Bishop of Melo on 21 December 1999, a post he held for almost a decade. He had to resign on 13 June 2009 due to illness.

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