Mario Revollo Bravo

{{Short description|Colombian prelate}} {{family name hatnote|Revollo|Bravo|lang=Spanish}} {{No footnotes|date=June 2022}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Cardinal | honorific_prefix = [[His Eminence]] | name = Mario Revollo Bravo | title = [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)|Cardinal]]<br>[[Archbishop of Bogotá|Archbishop Emeritus of Bogotá]] | image = Catedral de Bogotá - Capilla de Nuestra Señora de los Dolores -tumba.jpg | caption = Tomb at the [[Primatial Cathedral of Bogotá]] | appointed = 25 June 1984 | term_end = 13 August 1994 | predecessor = [[Aníbal Muñoz Duque]] | successor = [[Pedro Rubiano Sáenz]] | other_post = [[San Bartolomeo all'Isola|Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all'Isola]] (1988-95) | ordination = 31 October 1943 | ordained_by = [[Luigi Traglia]] | consecration = 2 December 1973 | consecrated_by = [[Aníbal Muñoz Duque]] | cardinal = 28 June 1988 | created_cardinal_by = [[Pope John Paul II]] | rank = [[Cardinal-Priest]] | birth_name = Mario Revollo Bravo | birth_date = 15 June 1919 | birth_place = [[Genoa]], [[Kingdom of Italy]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1995|11|03|1919|06|15}} | death_place = [[Bogotá]], [[Colombia]] | previous_post = {{unbulleted list|[[Thinisa in Numidia|Titular Bishop of Thinisa in Numidia]] (1973-78)|Auxiliary Bishop of Bogotá (1973-78)|[[Episcopal Conference of Colombia|President of the Colombian Episcopal Conference]] (1978-84)|[[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nueva Pamplona|Archbishop of Nueva Pamplona]] (1978-84)|[[Military Vicariate of Colombia|Military Vicar of Colombia]] (1984-85)}} | alma_mater = {{unbulleted|[[Pontifical Gregorian University]]|[[Pontifical Biblical Institute]]}} | motto = ''Vis pacis'' | coat_of_arms = Coat of arms of Mario Revollo Bravo.svg }} '''Mario Revollo Bravo''' (19 September 1919 - 3 November 1995) was a Colombian prelate of the [[Catholic Church]] who was [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bogotá|archbishop of Bogotá]] from 1984 to 1994. He was made a [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinal]] in 1988.

==Biography== {{infobox cardinalstyles |cardinal name = Mario Revollo Bravo |dipstyle = His Eminence |offstyle = Your Eminence |relstyle = Cardinal |deathstyle = |See = [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bogotá|Bogotá]] |image = Coat of arms of Mario Revollo Bravo.svg |image_size = 100px }}

Mario Revollo Bravo was born in [[Genoa]], [[Italy]], where his father was Colombian [[consul]] in that city. He was the third of the six children. He was ordained 31 October 1943 in [[Rome]] by Cardinal [[Luigi Traglia]].

[[Pope Paul VI]] appointed him an [[auxiliary bishop]] of [[Bogotá]] on 13 November 1973. He was elected president of the [[Episcopal Conference of Colombia]] in 1978 and held that position until [[Pope John Paul II]] transferred him to the [[metropolitan see]] of Bogotá on 25 June 1984.

Pope John Paul II made Revollo Bravo [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|Cardinal-Priest]] of [[San Bartolomeo all'Isola]] in the [[Papal consistory|consistory]] of 1988. He retired as archbishop in 1994. He died on 3 November 1995.

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==External links== * [http://www.gcatholic.org/hierarchy/data/cardJP2-4.htm#276 Database of Catholic Information]

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