Jump to content

José Ulises Macías Salcedo

From Catholicism Wiki
His Excellency
José Ulises Macías Salcedo
Archbishop Emeritus of Hermosillo
Archdiocese Hermosillo
Appointed 20 August 1996
Installed 29 October 1996
Term ended 26 April 2016
Predecessor Carlos Quintero Arce
Successor Ruy Rendón Leal
Previous post Bishop of Mexicali (1984–1996)
Orders
Ordination 10 April 1966
Consecration 29 July 1984
by Girolamo Prigione, Manuel Pérez-Gil y González and Anselmo Zarza Bernal
Personal details
Born 19 October 1940
León, Guanajuato, Mexico
Died 22 April 2026 (aged 85)
Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico
Motto Vinculum amoris et unitatis

José Ulises Macías Salcedo[1] (29 October 1940 – 22 April 2026) was a Mexican Roman Catholic prelate who served as bishop of Mexicali (1984–1996) and archbishop of Hermosillo (1996–2016).

Biography

Macías Salcedo was born in León, Guanajuato, on 29 October 1940.

He studied humanities in the Seminary of his native city, and studied philosophy and theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, where later received a Licentiate in Philosophy.

Macías Salcedo was then ordained a priest in León on 10 April 1966.

Named bishop for the Diocese of Mexicali by Pope John Paul II, on 16 June 1984, and consecrated on 29 July, in the city of Mexicali, presided over by Apostolic Delegate Archbishop Girolamo Prigione.

Pope John Paul II named him the third Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Hermosillo on 19 August 1996, and he took possession on 29 October of the same year.

Macías Salcedo retired in 2016, and died on 22 April 2026, at the age of 85.[2]

References