Bishop Luis Albeiro Maldonado Monsalve

Bishop Luis Albeiro Maldonado Monsalve was born in Fredonia, diocese of Caldas, on 20 January 1958. He carried out his priestly formation at the Medellín Major Seminary, studying philosopy and theology at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana. He obtained a licentiate in spiritual theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome. He received priestly ordination on 5 July 1986, and was incardinated in the metropolitan archdiocese of Medellín. He has held the following offices: formator in the major seminary, parish administrator of San Simón, Apóstol in Medellín, parish priest of San Rafael in Envigado, spiritual director of the major seminary, professor and chaplain at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, parish priest of Nuestra Señora de las Nieves in Medellín, parish priest of Sagrada Familia in Medellín, parish priest of Santa Ana in Sabaneta, administrator of the autonomous priestly Foundation, parish priest of Nuestra Señora del Rosario in Bello, and episcopal vicar of the North Zone of the archdiocese of Medellín. On 15 October 2015 he was appointed bishop of Mocoa-Sibundoy, receiving episcopal consecration the following 3 December. S.E.