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Antonio Moreno Casamitjana

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Antonio Moreno Casamitjana
Archbishop of Concepción
Church Catholic Church
Archdiocese Archdiocese of Concepción
In office 14 October 1989 – 27 December 2006
Predecessor José Manuel Santos
Successor Ricardo Ezzati
Previous posts Titular Bishop of Mades (1986-1989)
Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago de Chile (1986-1989)
Orders
Ordination 4 December 1949
by José María Caro Rodríguez
Consecration 9 July 1986
by Juan Francisco Fresno
Personal details
Born 9 July 1927
Santiago, Chile
Died 31 July 2013 (aged 86)

Antonio Moreno Casamitjana (9 July 1927 – 31 July 2013) was a Chilean Catholic archbishop.

Archbishop Moreno was born in Santiago in 1927, son of Antonio Moreno and María Casamitjana. As a youth, he participated in Parroquia Nuestra Señora de Andacollo, Santiago. Ordained to the priesthood in 1949, he was appointed bishop in 1986 and became archbishop of the Archdiocese of Concepción, Chile in 1989 and retired in 2007.[1]

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