José Dimas Cedeño Delgado [SEP] position held
José Dimas Cedeño Delgado
José Dimas Cedeño Delgado (born 23 July 1933) was the Roman Catholic archbishop of the Archdiocese of Panamá from 1994 to 2010, when his resignation was accepted by Pope Benedict XVI for reasons of age. Benedict appointed one of the Archbishop's Auxiliary Bishops, Bishop Jose Domingo Ulloa Mendieta, O.S.A., to serve as the next Metropolitan Archbishop of Panama.
Cedeño was ordained a priest in 1961 and was consecrated a bishop in 1975 when he became the bishop of the Diocese of Santiago de Veraguas.
of Dagobert and Clodomira Ulloa Mendieta. He was ordained priest on December 17, 1983 by the then Bishop of Chitre, Bishop José María Carrizo Villarreal, at the Cathedral of San Juan Bautista Chitre. He joined the Augustinian Order in 1987, making his solemn vows on August 28, 1991. On February 26, 2004, S.S. Pope John Paul II appointed him Auxiliary Bishop of Naratcata y Auxiliar de Panama. His episcopal consecration took place in the Metropolitan Cathedral, on April 17, 2004, with Monsignor José Dimas Cedeño Delgado