Diego de Astorga y Céspedes

Diego de Astorga y Céspedes
Cardinal Diego de Astorga y Céspedes
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Ordained priest December 17, 1689
Consecrated bishop June 14, 1716, by Luis Belluga Moncada, Bishop of Cartagena
Created cardinal November 26, 1727 by Pope Benedict XIII
Died February 9, 1734, Madrid
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Diego de Astorga y Céspedes (17 October 1663 - 9 February 1734) was an Spanish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He also served as Bishop of Barcelona, Archbishop of Toledo and Grand Inquisitor.

Biography

Diego de Astorga y Céspedes was born in Gibraltar, then a Spanish town. He obtained a degree on Canon law at the University of Granada and was ordained in 1689. In 1705, he was appointed General Vicar of Ceuta and Inquisitor of the kingdom of Murcia in 1710. He was consecrated as Bishop of Barcelona in 1716, being the first non Catalan priest to serve as Bishop in Barcelona, due to the abolition of the provisos on foreign bishops in Catalonia by the Nueva Planta decrees, issued by Philip V of Spain after the austriacist defeat in the War of the Spanish Succession.[1]

Four years later, in 1720, he was consecrated as Archbishop of Toledo and therefore Primate of Spain. He was also appointed Grand Inquisitor (although he resigned the same year[2]). In 1727, he was created Cardinal by Pope Benedict XIII. However, he never received the red hat and the title and did not participate in the 1730 conclave, which elected Pope Clement XII. He was also a member of the Privy council of the king Philip V after his abdication on his son Louis I.

'Transparente' the Cathedral of Toledo.

He ordered the crafting of El Transparente of the Cathedral of Toledo to Narciso Tomé, an example of the intrincated Spanish Baroque set behind the main altar of the main chapel (the chapel of the Santísimo Sacramento). The Bishop wished to mark the presence of the Holy Sacrament with a glorious monument, which costed 200,000 ducats and was cause of great enthusiasm, even with a poem wherein the monument was acclaimed 'the Eighth Wonder of the World'.[3] Cardinal Astorga y Céspedes is buried at the feet of 'El Transparente'.

During his whole career, Bishop De Astorga y Céspedes promoted the devotion to Our Lady of Europe, the devotion title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary in Gibraltar.[4]

References

  1. ^ Joan Bonet i Baltà (1984) (in Catalan). L'Església catalana de la Il·lustració e la Renaixença. L'Abadia de Montserrat. pp. 66–68. ISBN 9788472026469. http://books.google.se/books?id=pRrWclriXjcC. 
  2. ^ A History of the Inquisition of Spain, Volume 1, by Henry Charles Lea. Appendix 2: List of Inquisitors-General]
  3. ^ Narciso Tome's 'Transparente' in the Web Gallery of Art.
  4. ^ Historical Notes On Our Lady of Europe. Chapter 7. The Devotion In Barcelona And Madrid, based on History of Our Lady of Europe, by the Bishop Charles Caruana.

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Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Francisco Valero Losa
Archbishop of Toledo
1720-1735
Succeeded by
Luis Antonio Fernández de Córdoba Portocarrero Guzmán y Aguilar
Preceded by
Francesco del Giudice
Grand Inquisitor of Spain
1720
Succeeded by
Juan de Camargo y Angulo

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