Find a Grave Rafael Gallardo Garcia (1927-2021)
Find a Grave Rafael Gallardo Garcia (1927-2021)
Rafael Gallardo Garcia
Birth 28 Oct 1927
Yuriria, Yuriria Municipality, Guanajuato, Mexico
DEATH 30 Jan 2021 (aged 93)
Burial
Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepcion de Tampico
Tampico, Tampico Municipality, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Religious Figure
He was a Mexican Roman Catholic bishop.
He received the priestly order in Rome, Italy at the Basilica of St. John Lateran on April 8, 1950. On September 25, 1974, he was consecrated as the third Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Linares until 1987.
Pope Saint John Paul II appointed him as Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tampico on May 21, 1987 until December 27, 2003 when he retired from the diocese.