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Pedro Rubiano Sáenz

His Eminence
Pedro Rubiano Sáenz
Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Bogotá
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See Bogotá (emeritus)
Installed 27 December 1994
Term ended 8 July 2010
Predecessor Mario Revollo Bravo
Successor Rubén Salazar Gómez
Orders
Ordination 5 July 1956
by Julio Caicedo Téllez
Consecration 11 July 1972
by Angelo Palmas
Created Cardinal February 8, 2001
by Pope John Paul II
Rank Cardinal-Priest
Personal details
Born (1932-09-13) September 13, 1932 (age 84)
Cartago, Colombia
Nationality Colombian
Denomination Roman Catholic Church
Previous post Archbishop of Cali (1985–1994)
Diocese of Cúcuta (1971–1983)
Motto Caritas Christi urget us
Latin: The Love of Christ compels us
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Styles of
Pedro Rubiano Sáenz
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Reference style His Eminence
Spoken style Your Eminence
Informal style Cardinal
See Bogotá

Pedro Rubiano Sáenz (born September 13, 1932) is a cardinal and Roman Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Bogotá in the Roman Catholic Church.

Born in Cartago, Colombia, Rubiano Sáenz studied at the seminary in Popayán before his being ordained as a priest on 8 July 1956. He did pastoral ministry 1956–1971. Pastor and founder of the parishes of "San Pedro Claver" and of "Nuestra Señora de la Providencia". He served as treasurer and pastoral vicar of the archdiocese of Cali and vice-rector of the Major School "Santiago di Cali".

In 1971, he was named Bishop of Cúcuta. He was consecrated only fifteen years after his ordination to the priesthood and just within the canonical limit, on 11 July 1972 in Cali, by Archbishop Angelo Palmas, nuncio to Colombia. He was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Cali in 1983 and was transferred to the metropolitan and primatial see of Bogotá, 27 December 1994. From 1990 to 1996, he chaired the Colombian Bishops' Conference.

Pope John Paul II proclaimed Rubiano Sáenz Cardinal-Priest of Trasfigurazione di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo in the consistory of February 21, 2001. In 2002, he was elected president of the Colombian Episcopal Conference, and he was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that elected Pope Benedict XVI. Cardinal Rubiano Sáenz's resignation as Archbishop of Bogotá was accepted by Pope Benedict on 8 July 2010. He was apostolic administrator of the archdiocese until the installation of his successor, Archbishop Jesus Salazar Gómez, on August 13, 2010.


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