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Luis R. Zarama

His Excellency, The Most Reverend
Luis Rafael Zarama Pasqualetto
Bishop of Raleigh
Archdiocese Atlanta
Diocese Raleigh
Appointed July 5, 2017
Installed August 29, 2017
Predecessor Michael Francis Burbidge
Orders
Ordination November 27, 1993
Consecration July 27, 2009
by Wilton Daniel Gregory, Eusebius J. Beltran, and John Francis Donoghue
Personal details
Born (1958-11-28) November 28, 1958 (age 58)
Pasto, Colombia
Nationality Colombian-American
Denomination Roman Catholic Church
Residence Raleigh, North Carolina
Previous post Auxiliary Bishop of Atlanta
Titular Bishop of Bararus
Motto Deus caritas est
Styles of
Luis Rafael Zarama
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Reference style
Spoken style Your Excellency
Religious style Bishop

Luis Rafael Zarama Pasqualetto (born November 28, 1958) is a Colombian-American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who serves as Bishop of Raleigh.

Luis Rafael Zarama Pasqualetto was born in Pasto, Nariño, Colombia, the oldest of the six children of Rafael Zarama and Maria Pasqualetto de Zarama.

Zarama attended the seminary of Pasto and the Universidad Mariana, where he studied philosophy and theology from 1982 to 1987. He began his studies in canon law at the Pontifical Xavierian University in Bogotá in 1987, and earned his licentiate in 1991.

In the mid-1980s and while he attended seminary, Zarama also taught at high schools.

Emigrating to the United States in 1991, he was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Atlanta on November 27, 1993.

Zarama then served as parochial vicar at Sacred Heart Parish in Atlanta until 1996. From 1996 to 2006, he was administrator of St. Helena Mission in Clayton and pastor of St. Mark Parish in Clarkesville. He became an American citizen on July 4, 2000.


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