Miguel García Cuesta

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Miguel García Cuesta (6 October 1803 in Macotera – 18 April 1873 in Santiago de Compostela) was a professor at the University of Salamanca, Bishop of Jaca (1848), Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela (1851),

In 1815, at the age of twelve, he left his native village with his uncle, who was the chaplain of the Sanctuary of the Virgin of Valdejimena in Horcajo Medianero. Three years later, he was enrolled at the seminary in Salamanca, where he studied philosophy and theology and became a substitute professor of mathematics. He took his bachelor's degree from the University of Salamanca.

In 1825, he received the four

He died at the Archbishop's Palace in Santiago de Compostela, and is interred in the Pantheon of Archbishops at the Metropolitan Cathedral.

Sources

• Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church Archived 2015-07-06 at the Wayback Machine created by Pius IX @ Florida International University
• García Cuesta @ Catholic-Hierarchy.org
• Miguel García Cuesta @ the Spanish Senate website.

Further reading

• Controversy with the Cardinal Archbishop of Santiago, on the Great Question Between Protestantism and Romanism, in Letters Between the Cardinal and A. Dallas, Revised, with an Appendix by E.B. Elliott, Reprint by BiblioBazaar, 2016
  ISBN 1-3589-2429-5

• Media related to Miguel García Cuesta at Wikimedia Commons