Benito Sanz y Forés

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name = Benito Cardinal Sanz y Fores †

Archdiocese of Seville | Title = Archbishop of Seville, Cardinal priest of Sant'Eusebio | Period = December 30, 1889 — November 1, 1895 | cardinal = January 16, 1893
Predecessor = Zeferino González y Díaz Tuñón | Successor = Blessed Marcelo Spinola y Maestre | post = Archbishop of Valladolid| date of birth = Birth date|1828|3|21|mf=y | place of birth = Gandía, Spain| date of death = Death date and age|1895|11|1|1828|3|21|
place of death= Madrid, Spain |

Benito Cardinal Sanz y Fores J.C.D. S.T.D. (21 March 1828 - 1 November 1895) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of Seville.

Benito Sanz y Fores was born in Gandía, Spain. He was educated at the University of Valencia where he studied philosophy and law, obtaining a bachelor's degree in law in 1848. He continued his studies at the Seminary of Valencia where he received a doctorate in canon law in 1853 and in a doctorate in theology in 1857.

Priesthood

He was ordained on March 27 1852 in Valencia. Worked in the Archdiocese of Valencia as a professor of canon law in its seminary from 1851-1857 as well as being canon magistral and vicar general. He also worked as an abbreviator in the nunciature in Spain, Madrid and served as a preacher in the Royal Court in 1864 as well as an auditor of the Sacred Rota in Madrid in 1866.

Episcopate

He was appointed as bishop of Oviedo by Pope Pius IX on June 22, 1868. He attended the First Vatican Council in Rome from 1869-1870. Promoted to the metropolitan see of Valladolid on November 18, 1881 and transferred to the metropolitan see of Seville on December 30, 1889.

Cardinalate

He was created Cardinal-Priest of "Sant'Eusebio" by Pope Leo XIII in the consistory of January 16 1893. He died in Madrid two years later and was buried in the metropolitan cathedral of Seville.

External links

* [http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1893.htm#Sanz The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church]
* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bsanzy.html Catholic Hierarchy data for this cardinal]