Luis José Rueda Aparicio (born 3 March 1962) is a Colombian Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of Bogotá since 2020.
Luis José Rueda Aparicio was born in San Gil, Santander, on 3 March 1962, the tenth of eleven siblings.
Before deciding to become a priest he worked in construction alongside his father and managed a laboratory in a cement factory.
[9] He received his pallium, the symbol of his office as a metropolitan archbishop, from Pope Francis in St. Peter's Basilica on 29 June 2018.
He has been an outspoken supporter of the peace agreement of 2016 between the government of Colombia and the FARC rebels and protested against the assassination of social leaders.