- Ángel Suquía Goicoechea
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See=Madrid |Angel Cardinal Suquía Goicoechea (
2 October 1916 -13 July 2006 ) was theRoman Catholic Archbishop of Madrid from 1983 until 1994.He was educated at the Christian Brothers at La Salle, Beasain, from 1925 until 1927. He entered the
Minor Seminary ofSaturrarán ,Motrico ,Guipúzcoa , and remained there until 1931, whereupon he entered the Major Seminary ofVitoria , until 1936. When theSpanish Civil War started in 1936, he was destined to the fort of Guadalupe as a soldiers' instructor. In 1939, he travelled to the Benedictine monastery ofMaria Laach inGermany , to studyliturgy but when theSecond World War started in that same year, he quickly returned toSpain . He entered thePontifical Gregorian University in Rome in 1946 remaining there until 1949 where he obtained adoctorate intheology with the highest grades with histhesis on "La santa Misa en la espiritualidad de SanIgnacio de Loyola ".He was ordained to the priesthood on
7 July 1940 . On17 May 1966 Pope Paul VI appointed him to be theBishop of Almeria. He served as bishop of Málaga from 1969-1973. He became Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela on13 April 1973 . On12 April 1983 he was chosen to succeedVicente Cardinal Enrique y Tarancon asArchbishop ofMadrid byPope John Paul II .On
25 May 1985 he was created and proclaimedCardinal-Priest of "Gran Madre di Dio ". He remained at the see of Madrid until 1994 when he reached that age of 77.
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