Salvador Casañas y Pagés

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Salvador Cardinal Casañas y Pagés (September 5, 1834—October 27, 1908) was a Spanish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Barcelona from 1901 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1895.

Biography

Salvador Casañas y Pagés was born in Barcelona, and studied at the seminary in Barcelona and the University of Valencia, from where he obtained his licentiate in theology in 1857. He was ordained to the priesthood on December 18, 1858, and then did pastoral work in Barcelona for several years. He later became a professor and the rector of its seminary, and was made canon administrator of its cathedral chapter.

On June 22, 1896, Casañas was appointed Apostolic Administrator "sede plena" of Urgell on January 18, 1879 by Pope Leo XIII, and later Titular bishop of "Ceramus" on the following February 7. He received his episcopal consecration on March 23 of that same year from Bishop José de Urquinaona y Vidot, with Bishops Tomás Sivilla y Gener and Tomás Costa y Fornaguera serving as co-consecrators, in the Cathedral of Barcelona. Casañas was later named Bishop of Urgell on the following September 22; in this position he also served as Co-Prince of Andorra. The French Co-Princes of Andorra during his leadership were Jules Grévy, Sadi Carnot, Jean Casimir-Perier, and Félix Faure. He was a senator for the ecclesiastical province of Tarragona as well.

Pope Leo created him Cardinal Priest of "Santi Quirico e Giulitta" in the consistory of November 29, 1895. Casañas was made Bishop of Barcelona on April 18, 1901, and later participated in the papal conclave of 1903, which selected Pope Pius X. On Christmas Day in 1905, an anarchist made an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate the Cardinal in the cloister of the Barcelona cathedral.

Casañas died in his Barcelona, at the age of 74. He is buried in the cathedral of the same.

External links

* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bcasan.html Catholic-Hierarchy]
* [http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1895.htm#Casanas Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church]