Jorge Manuel López was an Argentine

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 Roman Catholic

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 bishop

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. He was born in Rosario

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, Santa Fe Province

Santa Fe Province

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, where he was ordained priest

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 in 1942. He was appointed auxiliary bishop in the city's diocese on 20 May 1968. He then led the Archdiocese of Corrientes, starting on 5 April 1972, and was appointed Archbishop of Rosario

Archdiocese of Rosario

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rosario is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the southern part of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, with its motherchurch, the Basilica Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary, located in the city of Rosario...

 on 19 January 1983, where he served for ten years. He retired from this post upon reaching the age of 75, on 20 November 1993.

López was the vice-president of the Argentine Episcopal Conference

Argentine Episcopal Conference

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and served in several episcopal commissions, even after his retirement. He presided the Episcopal Council for the Causes of Saints until November 2005. He died in 2006 at the age of 88, in the residence of the Sisters Servants of Jesus in Rosario.