Juan Guillermo López Soto (10 February 1947 – 8 September 2021) was a Mexican Roman Catholic prelate. Biography He served as the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cuauhtémoc-Madera, based in Chihuahua state, for 26 years from November 1995, until his death in September 2021.
On 30 August 2021, the Diocese of Cuauhtémoc-Madera announced that López Soto had tested positive for COVID-19. He was admitted to Hospital Ángeles, a private hospital in the city of Chihuahua for treatment. López also suffered from several pre-existing cardiac conditions, including three heart surgeries in September 2018 for an obstructed artery, followed by a heart attack days after the operations.
Bishop Juan Guillermo López Soto died from complications of COVID-19, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico, at the Hospital Ángeles in Chihuahua on 8 September 2021, at the age of 74. He had planned to retire in February 2022 when he reached the mandatory retirement age of 75.
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