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José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra

Mexicain Roman Catholic bishop

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ933131 ↗
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José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra (born 1 January 1922) is a Mexican Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas from 1985 until his retirement in 1993.

Life

Parra was born in Cotija, Mexico, and was ordained a priest on May 26, 1946. Parra was appointed Bishop of Tula in 1961. He attended sessions one, two and four of the Second Vatican Council. Parra's last appointment was to the Diocese of Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas on September 11, 1985. He retired on May 3, 1993 and turned 100 in January 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.