Luis del Castillo Estrada

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Luis Serapio del Castillo Estrada, S.J. (21 June 1935 – 4 March 2026) was a Uruguayan Roman Catholic prelate.

Biography

Luis del Castillo was ordained priest on 30 July 1966 in the Society of Jesus.

On 9 April 1988, he was appointed titular bishop of Tarasa in Numidia and auxiliary bishop of Montevideo.

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.[1]

Del Castillo Estrada died on 4 March 2026, at the age of 90.[2]

References

  1. 1."Luis del Castillo resigns". El País. 15 June 2009. (in Spanish)
  2. 2.Falleció a los 90 años el obispo Luis del Castillo, figura central de la Iglesia uruguaya (in Spanish)