Monsignor Luis Gabriel Ramirez Diaz was born in Barranquilla, Diocese of El Banco, Colombia, in 1965. He studied his programs of study of high school diploma in Theology at the University of Navarra and graduated in 1993. During his stay in Pamplona, he was trained at the high school Bidasoa International Ecclesiastical. He obtained the doctorate in Spiritual Theology at the high school Teresianum in Rome. He was ordained a priest in 1993 by St. John Paul II and was incardinated in the diocese of Santa Marta.

In addition to extensive pastoral experience, Monsignor Luis Gabriel Ramirez was President of seminar Mayor San José, of the diocese of Santa Marta. diocese of Santa Marta.. In 2006, the diocese of diocese of El Banco where he was delegated counselor for priestly ministry and, later, Vicar General. Since April 2013 he was the Apostolic Administrator. The Holy Father Francis has appointed him Bishop of the Diocese of El Banco (Colombia).