Ricardo Centellas: key obituary facts
Is Ricardo Centellas dead? Yes. Ricardo Centellas died on September 24, 2026, at age 63.
Cause of death: Ricardo Centellas's cause of death has not been publicly confirmed.
What was Ricardo Centellas known for?
He was a Bolivian Roman Catholic archbishop (1962–2026).
More about Ricardo Centellas
Ricardo Centellas, a Bolivian Roman Catholic prelate who served as auxiliary bishop and bishop of Potosí and as archbishop of Sucre, died on September 24, 2026, aged 63.
Born Ricardo Ernesto Centellas Guzmán on November 7, 1962, in the Chuquisaca Department of Bolivia, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Potosí in 2005 and became bishop of the diocese in 2009, serving until 2020. He then led the Archdiocese of Sucre from 2020 until his death in Oruro.
Centellas also served as president of the Episcopal Conference of Bolivia from 2015 to 2018 and was re-elected to that post for a term that ran until 2021. He studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University.