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Emilio Carlos Berlie Belaunzarán

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The Most Reverend
Emilio Carlos Berlie Belaunzarán
Archbishop of Yucatán
Church Roman Catholic Church
Archdiocese Yucatán
See Yucatán
Appointed 15 March 1995
Installed 29 April 1995
Term ended 1 July 2015
Predecessor Manuel Castro Ruiz
Successor Gustavo Rodríguez Vega
Previous post Bishop of Tijuana (1983-95)
Orders
Ordination 3 July 1966
by Pope Paul VI
Consecration 25 July 1983
by Girolamo Prigione
Personal details
Born 4 November 1939
Aguascalientes City, Aguascalientes, Mexico
Motto in nomine domini
("In the name of God")

Emilio Carlos Berlie Belaunzarán (born 4 November 1939) is a Mexican Catholic prelate who served as of Bishop of Tijuana from 1983 to 1995, and later Archbishop of Yucatán from 1995 to 2015.

Biography

Berlie was ordained by Pope Paul VI as a priest on 3 July 1966.[1] He was appointed by Pope John Paul II as Bishop of Tijuana on 3 June 1983. The apostolic nuncio in Mexico, Girolamo Prigione, consecrated him as a bishop on 25 July of the same year. Berlie's co-consecrators were Salvador Quezada Limón, Bishop of Aguascalientes, and Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, Bishop of Cuernavaca.

On 15 March 1995, Berlie was appointed Archbishop of Yucatán and inaugurated on 29 April. In 2013, he was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI as a member of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America.[2] In 2015, Berlie retired as archbishop and Pope Francis accepted his retirement on 1 June.[3]

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