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Luis María Estrada Paetau

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Luis María Estrada Paetau
O.P.
Apostolic Vicar of Izabal
Church Catholic Church
See Apostolic Vicariate of Izabal
In office 27 October 1977 – 12 June 2004
Predecessor Gerardo Humberto Flores Reyes
Successor Gabriel Peñate Rodríguez
Other post Titular Bishop of Regiae (1977-2011)
Previous post Apostolic Administrator of El Petén (1970-1977)
Orders
Ordination 26 March 1961
Consecration 12 December 1977
by Emanuele Gerada
Personal details
Born 26 May 1935
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Died 25 March 2011 (aged 75)

Luis María Estrada Paetau (26 May 1935 – 25 March 2011) was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Vicariate Apostolic of Izabal, Guatemala.

Born in Guatemala, Estrada Paetau was ordained a priest in 1961 in Salamanca (Spain) at the end of the studies of Theologie in the Faculty of San Esteban. In 1977, he was named a bishop and was named bishop of the Izabal Vicariate Apostolic in 1988. He resigned in 2004.[1]

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