Víctor Manuel López Forero

Víctor Manuel López Forero (29 March 1931 – 23 September 2023) was a Colombian prelate of the Catholic Church.

Víctor Manuel López Forero was ordained a priest on 27 October 1957 and was incardinated into the clergy of the Archdiocese of Bogotá.

The Archbishop of Bogotá and Military Vicar of Colombia, Cardinal Aníbal Muñoz Duque, ordained López bishop on 29 June of the same year; The co-consecrators were José Gabriel Calderón Contreras, Bishop of Cartago, and Alfonso López Trujillo, Auxiliary Archbishop ad personam in Bogotá.

Pope John Paul II appointed López as Bishop of Socorro y San Gil on 6 December 1980.

[1] On 13 February 2009, Pope Benedict XVI accepted López's request to resign due to age.