José Bueno y Monreal

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José María Cardinal Bueno y Monreal (September 11, 1904—August 20, 1987) was an Spanish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Seville from 1957 to 1982, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1958.

Biography

Born in Zaragoza, José Bueno y Monreal studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University and the Angelicum in Rome. He was ordained to the priesthood on March 19, 1927, and then taught at the seminary and journalism school in Madrid until 1945. Becoming a professor at Madrid's Superior Institute of Religious Culture in 1929, Monreal also served as diocesan fiscal from 1935 to 1945, which was the same year he was made a doctoral canon.

On December 1, 1945, he was appointed Bishop of Jaca by Pope Pius XII. Monreal received his episcopal consecration on March 19, 1946 from Bishop Leopoldo Eijo y Garay, with Bishops Casimiro Morcillo González and Luigi Muñoyerro serving as co-consecrators. He was later named Bishop of Vitoria on May 13, 1950, and Coadjutor Archbishop of Seville and Titular Archbishop of "Antiochia in Pisidia" on October 27, 1954. As coadjutor, Monreal served under Pedro Cardinal Segura y Sáenz, who refused even to see Monreal and tried to stop his efforts to soften the Cardinal's strict rules for Sevillian Catholics [TIME Magazine. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,937728-3,00.html The New Cardinals] December 22, 1958] .

Monreal succeeded the late Cardinal Segura y Sáenz as Archbishop of Seville on April 8, 1957. He was created Cardinal Priest of "Ss. Vito, Modesto e Crescenzia" by Pope John XXIII in the consistory of December 15, 1958. From 1962 to 1965, Monreal attended the Second Vatican Council; along with José Cardinal Quintero Parra, he assisted Paul Cardinal Zoungrana in delivering one of the closing messages of the Council on December 8, 1965 [Christus Rex. [http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/v19.html To Workers] ] . He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 1963 papal conclave, and again in the conclaves of August and October 1978. He resigned as Seville's archbishop on May 22, 1982, after twenty-five years of service.

The Cardinal died in Pamplona, at age 82. He is buried in Seville Cathedral.

References

External links

* [http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios-b.htm#Bueno Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church]
* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbuemon.html Catholic-Hierarchy]