Archbishop of Bucaramanga
Bishop Luis Augusto Campos Flórez is Bishop of Socorro y San Gil, Colombia. He was born in Bogotá on 23 August 1958. He completed philosophical and theological studies at the San José Major Seminary in Bogotá. He obtained a licentiate in philosophy from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. The Holy See text states that he studied for a doctorate in philosophy at the Institut Catholique in Paris; the Conferencia Episcopal de Colombia profile states that he earned a doctorate in philosophy from the Catholic Institute of Paris. He was ordained to the priesthood on 8 December 1982, recorded in the CEC profile as 08 December 1982, and was incardinated in the Archdiocese of Bogotá. After priestly ordination, Bishop Campos Flórez served as parish vicar in Soacha, parish administrator of San Francisco de Paula, formator and professor at the San José Major Seminary in Bogotá, rector of the San José Major Seminary in Bogotá, parish priest of San Tarsicio, and, from 2011, episcopal vicar of the archdiocesan vicaría of the Holy Spirit. On 12 December 2019 Pope Francis appointed him Bishop of the Diocese of Socorro y San Gil. On 08 February 2020 he received episcopal ordination in the Cathedral of Bogotá, and on 22 February 2020 he took canonical possession of the assigned see.