José Bueno y Monreal
Bishop of Vitoria (1950–54) | |
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| Alma mater | Pontifical Gregorian University University of Madrid |
| Motto | Opus justitiae pax |
| Styles of José Bueno y Monreal | ||
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Reference style His Eminence | | |
| Spoken style | Your Eminence | |
| Informal style | Cardinal | |
| See | Seville | |
José María Bueno y Monreal (11 September 1904 – 20 August 1987) was a
Spanish cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Seville from 1957 to 1982, and was elevated to the cardinalate
in 1958.
Biography
Born in
canon
.
On 1 December 1945, he was appointed
Bishop of Vitoria on 13 May 1950, and Coadjutor Archbishop of Seville and Titular Archbishop of Antiochia in Pisidia on 27 October 1954. As coadjutor, Monreal served under Cardinal Pedro 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.[1]
Bueno y Monreal succeeded Cardinal Segura y Sáenz as
October 1978
. He resigned as archbishop of Seville on 22 May 1982, after a reign of twenty-five years.
Bueno y Monreal died in Pamplona, at age 82. He is buried in Seville Cathedral.
References
- ^ TIME Magazine. The New Cardinals 22 December 1958
- ^ Christus Rex. To Workers Archived 3 April 2007 at the Wayback Machine
