AMERICA/COLOMBIA – Resignation and appointment of vicar apostolic of Leticia

Vatican City – The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the apostolic vicariate of Leticia, Colombia, presented by Bishop José de Jesús Quintero Díaz.
The Holy Father appointed the Reverend John Mario Mesa Palacio, of the clergy of Santa Rosa de Osos, until now director of the Office for the animation of ecclesial spaces for communion and synodality of the Colombian Episcopal Conference, as vicar apostolic of Leticia, Colombia.
Msgr. John Mario Mesa Palacio was born on 8 June 1966 in Belmira, diocese of Santa Rosa de Osos. He studied philosophy and theology at the Santo Tomás de Aquino Diocesan Seminary of Santa Rosa de Osos.
He was ordained a priest on 23 November 1993 for the same diocese.
He has held the following offices: parish vicar of La Inmaculada Concepción in Amalfi, Colombia , spiritual director and rector of the Miguel Ángel Builes School in Riogrande; rector of the Nuestra Señora de las Misericordias School of Liborina , parish priest of Nuestra Señora del Perpetuo Socorro in Vegachí , parish priest of Nuestra Señora del Carmen in Vegachí , episcopal vicar for the zone of La Meseta , parish priest of Nuestra Señora del Carmen in Yarumal , director of the national team of the Servicio de Animación Comunitaria – SEDAC , episcopal vicar for pastoral care and delegate for family pastoral care , rector of the Santo Tomás de Aquino Diocesan Seminary , parish priest of Nuestra Señora del Rosario in Donmatías , and to date, director of the Office for the animation of ecclesial spaces of communion and synodality of the Colombian Episcopal Conference.

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