Ángel Herrera Oria

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Cardinal-Bishop Ángel Herrera Oria of Málaga

Ángel Cardinal Herrera Oria , also Angel Herrera y Oria (born December 19, 1886 in Santander , Cantabria , † July 28, 1968 in Madrid ) was a Spanish lawyer, journalist, politician and theologian. He was Bishop of Malaga and Cardinal of the Roman Church .

Life

Ángel Herrera Oria graduated from the Jesuit College of Valladolid and studied law at the University of Salamanca . In 1907 he entered the state lawyer service and was initially transferred to Burgos . As early as 1908 he took a leave of absence and left Burgos again to do a doctorate in law at the Central University in Madrid . Then he returned to the civil service.

In 1910 Herrera Oria became the first chairman of the Asociación Católica Nacional de Propagandistas (ACNP), which was founded in December 1909 at the suggestion of the Jesuit and priest Ángel Ayala , to spread Catholic positions in public life. In 1911 he founded the newspaper El Debate and the publishing house that edited it, which he was director from 1911 to 1933. Under his leadership, El Debate became one of the most influential newspapers in Spain in the 1920s. Since 1926, the Escuela de Periodismo has been part of the newspaper , which has developed into a prestigious school of journalism.

During the Second Republic , Herrera Oria was a well-known spokesman for Spanish Social Catholicism . Politically, he took a moderately conservative position that did not press for the unconditional restoration of the monarchy. He was chairman of the Acción Nacional party (later renamed Acción Popular because only state institutions were allowed to contain the name component "national"), which formed an important part of the Catholic-conservative collective party CEDA . From 1933 to 1936 Herrera Oria was President of the Central Committee of Catholic Action in Spain. Shortly before the start of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, he went to the University of Freiburg to study Catholic theology . On July 28, 1940, he received the sacrament of ordination there . He returned to Spain in 1943 and worked as a pastor in the Diocese of Santander until 1947 .

On April 24, 1947, Pope Pius XII appointed Ángel Herrera Oria as Bishop of Málaga. He was ordained bishop on June 30, 1947 by the Apostolic Nuncio in Spain and later Cardinal Gaetano Cicognani , co-consecrators were José María Eguino Trecu , Bishop of Santander, and Juan Hervás y Benet , Coadjutor of Mallorca . In 1965 he became a cardinal priest with the titular church of Sacro Cuore di Maria Immacolato ai Parioli in the College of Cardinals received. He attended the second, third and fourth sessions of the Second Vatican Council .

Ángel Herrera Oria died on July 28, 1968 in Madrid and was buried in the Cathedral of Malaga.

Beatification process

In November 1995 the beatification process was opened.

Fonts

  • El Diálogo. In: Instituto Social León XIII (ed.): El diálogo según la mente de Pablo VI. Comentarios a la "Ecclesiam suam" . Biblioteca de autores christianos, Madrid 1968, pp. 315–341.
  • Obras completas. Edited by José Luis Gutiérrez García. 6 volumes. Biblioteca de autores cristianos, Madrid 2002-2005, ISBN 84-7914-538-2 .

literature

in order of appearance

  • Juan Luis de Simòn Tobalina (ed.): Meditaciòn sobre España. Ideario político-social de Angel Herrera Oria. Biblioteca de autores cristianos, Madrid 1976, ISBN 84-220-0766-5 .
  • Mario Tagliaferri, Emilio Benavent (ed.): La conciencia social de los españoles. En el centenario de Angel Herrera. Biblioteca de autores cristianos, Madrid 1987, ISBN 84-220-1302-9 .
  • Enrique Somavilla Rodríguez OSA: D. Ángel Herrera Oria y el agustino P. Bruno Ibeas. Dos figuras del catolicismo social español de la primera mitad del siglo XX. In: Analecta Augustiniana. Divo parenti Augustino dicata , ISSN  0392-2855 , vol. 73 (2010), pp. 311-340.
  • José Luis Gutiérrez García: Historia de la Asociación Católica de Propagandistas. Vol. 2: Ángel Herrera Oria. Segundo período (1923-1935). Fundación Universitaria San Pablo / CEU Ediciones, Madrid 2010, ISBN 978-84-92456-66-6 .

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ José María García Escudero: El Pensamiento de "El Debate". Un diario católico en la crisis de España, 1911–1936 . Biblioteca de autores cristianos, Madrid 1983, ISBN 84-220-1087-9 .
  2. ^ Rogelio Rodríguez: "El Debate", un gran periódico católico en la reciente historia de España . In: Ya , March 26, 1983, p. 11.
  3. ↑ Enrique Somavilla Rodríguez: D. Ángel Herrera Oria y el agustino P. Bruno Ibeas. Dos figuras del catolicismo social español de la primera mitad del siglo XX . In: Analecta Augustiniana. Divo parenti Augustino dicata , vol. 73 (2010), pp. 311-340.
predecessor Office successor
Balbino Santos y Olivera Bishop of Málaga
1947–1966 		Emilio Benavent Escuín
personal data
SURNAME Herrera Oria, Angel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herrera Oria, Ángel Cardinal (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish lawyer, politician, clergyman and cardinal
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Santander , Spain
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1968
Place of death Madrid