Archbishop of Cali
Archbishop-elect Luis Fernando Rodríguez Velásquez was born on 8 December 1959 in Medellín, where he completed his philosophical and theological studies at the major seminary. He received a bachelor’s degree in theology and a licentiate in religious education from the Pontifical Bolivarian University, a licentiate in canon law from the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome, and a doctorate from the Pontifical Javeriana University in Bogotá. He received priestly ordination on 25 August 1984, and was incardinated in the metropolitan archdiocese of Medellín. He held the following positions: parish vicar of San Blas, formator and vice rector of the major seminary of Medellín, vice chancellor of the metropolitan archdiocese and secretary to the archbishop, parish priest of Santa María la Virgen, official of the Pontifical Council for the Family, parish priest of El Sagrario, deputy judicial vicar of the archdiocesan tribunal; professor, chaplain and rector of the Pontifical Bolivarian University, and vicar general of the metropolitan archdiocese of Medellín. He was appointed titular bishop of Illiberi and auxiliary of Cali on 5 July 2014 and received episcopal consecration the following 22 August.