Background
Oscar Urbina Ortega was born in Arboledas, and ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Aníbal Muñoz Duque on November 30, 1973.
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Oscar Urbina Ortega was born in Arboledas, and ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Aníbal Muñoz Duque on November 30, 1973.
He is the second and current Archbishop of Villavicencio. On March 8, 1996, he was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Bogotá and Titular Bishop of Forconium by Pope John Paul World War II He received his episcopal consecration on the following April 13 from Archbishop Pedro Rubiano Sáenz, with Archbishops Paolo Romeo and Tarcisio Bertone, SDB, serving as co-consecrators. Urbina was later named Bishop of Cúcuta on November 9, 1999.
Pope Benedict XVI later named him the second Archbishop of Villavicencio on November 30, 2007, the thirty-fourth anniversary of his priestly ordination.
Urbina succeeded José Ruiz Arenas, who was made a bishop in the same ceremony as the former in 1996, and was formally installed as Archbishop on January 25, 2008.
