Alberto Iniesta Jiménez

Alberto Iniesta Jiménez (born January 4, 1923 in Albacete ; † January 3, 2016 ibid) was a Spanish clergyman and Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Madrid .

Life

Alberto Iniesta Jiménez graduated from the Pontifical University of Salamanca with a degree in theology and was ordained a priest on July 13, 1958 . Thereafter, from 1958 to 1972, he was rector of the seminary in Albacete.

Pope Paul VI appointed him on September 5, 1972 auxiliary bishop in Madrid and titular bishop of Tubernuca . The Archbishop of Madrid , Cardinal Vicente Enrique y Tarancón , gave him episcopal ordination on October 22nd of the same year ; Co- consecrators were Ireneo García Alonso , Bishop of Albacete , and José Delicado Baeza , Bishop of Tui-Vigo . The district in the Archdiocese of Madrid that was entrusted to him was the Vallecas district in the south of the capital. In Vallecas he devoted himself particularly to workers' pastoral care. In December 1979, Cardinal Sebastiano Baggio , prefect of the Congregation for Bishops , invited him to the Vatican, where Bishop Iniesta had to justify his pastoral practice .

In the Spanish Bishops' Conference he was a member of the Liturgy Commission and the Migrants Commission. He headed the latter from 1987 to 1990.

On April 5, 1998, Pope John Paul II accepted his age-related resignation.

He died the day before his 93rd birthday in the priestly house in Albacete.

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Fallce en Albacete monseñor Alberto Iniesta Jiménez. In: Eldigitalcastillalamancha.es. January 3, 2016, accessed January 3, 2016 (Spanish).
^ Sixto Rodríguez Leal: La Iglesia en Vallecas. Del Padre Llanos and Enrique de Castro, 1955-1987 . In: Revista de Dialectología y Tradiciones Populares , Vol. 62 (2007), Issue 1, pp. 205–247; therein on Bishop Iniesta pp. 215–220.
^ Sixto Rodríguez Leal: La Iglesia en Vallecas. Del Padre Llanos and Enrique de Castro, 1955-1987 . In: Revista de Dialectología y Tradiciones Populares , vol. 62 (2007), issue 1, p. 218.
↑ Spain: New Challenges for the Church . In: Herder Korrespondenz , Vol. 34 (1980), p. 227.

personal data
SURNAME	Iniesta Jiménez, Alberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Spanish clergyman, auxiliary bishop in Madrid
DATE OF BIRTH	4th January 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH	Albacete
DATE OF DEATH	January 3, 2016
Place of death	Albacete