Miguel Angel Builes

Servant of God Bishop Miguel Ángel Builes Gómez
Bishop of Santa Rosa de Osos
Builes on 3 July 1927.
Church	Roman Catholic Church
Diocese	Santa Rosa de Osos
See	Santa Rosa de Osos
Appointed	27 May 1924
Installed	22 October 1924
Term ended	29 September 1971
Predecessor	Maximiliano Crespo Rivera
Successor	Joaquín García Ordóñez
Orders
Ordination	29 November 1914 by Maximiliano Crespo Rivera
Consecration	3 August 1924 by Roberto Vicentini
Rank	Bishop
Personal details
Birth name	Miguel Ángel Builes Gómez
Born	(1888-09-09)9 September 1888 Donmatías, Antioquía, Colombia
Died	29 September 1971(1971-09-29) (aged 83) Medellín, Colombia
Motto	Certa bonum certamen Fidei ("Fight the good fight of faith")
Signature
Sainthood
Venerated in	Roman Catholic Church
Title as Saint	Servant of God
Attributes	Episcopal attire

Miguel Ángel Builes Gómez (9 September 1888 - 29 September 1971) was a Colombian Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Santa Rosa de Osos from 1924 until his death. He was the founder of the Xaverian Missionaries of Yarumal (1927) and the Missionaries of Saint Thérèse (1929) as well as the Contemplative Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament (1939) and the Daughters of Our Lady of Mercy (1951). Builes was a prolific writer of pastoral letters and he condemned a vast range of issues in Colombian life that he deemed to be either too liberal or in breach of traditional doctrine; among those he condemned were women wearing trousers and various dance forms. He was a staunch defender of the faith which made him a controversial figure in his diocese with those praising and condemning him for his activism; but there were those who praised his orthodox views and his defense of doctrine in the face of a wave of secularism.

Despite the controversies that surrounded him the beatification cause for the late bishop opened in 1990 and he became titled as a Servant of God as the first stage in the process.

Miguel Ángel Builes Gómez was born on 9 September 1888 in Colombia to Agustín Builes Restrepo and Doña Ana María Gómez Peña. He completed his initial education in his hometown before deciding that he wanted to join the priesthood as per his call to the religious life.

On 7 February 1907 he walked to San Pedro de los Milagros where the Eudists accepted him into their institute for his ecclesial studies and there as a seminarian underwent his philosophical studies and humanities. But he relocated to another institute on 8 March 1911 just for his theological education which was a prerequisite for the priesthood. On 18 May 1913 he was elevated into the diaconate and around this stage suffered a severe illness that could have prevented his ordination though he was fortunate enough to overcome this in time. Builes received his ordination to the priesthood on 29 November 1914 from Maximiliano Crespo Rivera in the Santa Rosa de Osos cathedral. From 1915 to 1917 he was in Valdivia and Toledo as a pastor and then in 1917 sent to the new parish of Santa Isabel el Tigre. On 28 December 1918 he was appointed as the curate for another parish.