Carlos Quintero Arce

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Quintero and the second or maternal family name is Arce.

Carlos Quintero Arce
Archbishop of Archdiocese of Hermosillo Emeritus
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Church	Roman Catholic Church
See	Archdiocese of Hermosillo
In office	1968 - 1996
Predecessor	Juan María Navarrete y Guerrero
Successor	José Ulises Macías Salcedo
Orders
Ordination	April 8, 1944
Consecration	May 14, 1961 by José Garibi y Rivera
Personal details
Born	(1920-02-13)February 13, 1920 Etzatlán, Mexico
Died	Hermosillo, Mexico

Carlos Quintero Arce (February 13, 1920 – February 15, 2016) was a Mexican prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. At his death, he was the oldest Mexican bishop.

Quintero Arce was born in Etzatlán, Mexico, and was ordained a priest on April 8, 1944, for the Archdiocese of Guadalajara. He was appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Ciudad Valles on March 20, 1961, and consecrated on May 14, 1961. Quintero Arce was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Hermosillo on March 3, 1966, and succeeded as bishop upon retirement of Archbishop Juan María Navarrete y Guerrero on August 18, 1968. Quintero Arce retired from the Archdiocese of Hermosillo on August 20, 1996. He died at his home in Hermosillo, Sonora, on February 15, 2016, at the age of 96.

External links

• Catholic-Hierarchy
• Archdiocese of Guadalajara (Spanish)
• Archdiocese of Hermosillo (Spanish)