José Dimas Cedeño Delgado

His Excellency; José Dimas Cedeño Delgado
	Archbishop Emeritus of Panamá
Church	Roman Catholic Church
Archdiocese	Panamá
Installed	18 April 1994
Term ended	18 February 2010
Predecessor	Marcos Gregorio McGrath, C.S.C.
Successor	José Domingo Ulloa Mendieta, O.S.A.
Previous post	Bishop of Santiago de Veraguas (1975-1994)
Orders
Ordination	25 June 1961; by Francisco Beckmann, C.M.
Consecration	17 May 1975; by Edoardo Rovida
Personal details
Born	José Dimas Cedeño Delgado; July 23, 1933; Peña Blanca, Panama

José Dimas Cedeño Delgado (born 23 July 1933) was the Roman Catholic archbishop of the Archdiocese of Panamá from 1994 to 2010, when his resignation was accepted by Pope Benedict XVI for reasons of age. Benedict appointed one of the Archbishop's Auxiliary Bishops, Bishop Jose Domingo Ulloa Mendieta, O.S.A., to serve as the next Metropolitan Archbishop of Panama.

Cedeño was ordained a priest in 1961 and was consecrated a bishop in 1975 when he became the bishop of the Diocese of Santiago de Veraguas. Cedeño succeeded Marcos Gregorio McGrath as the archbishop of Panama on 18 April 1994.

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