Arturo Tabera

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Arturo Cardinal Tabera Araoz CMF (born October 29, 1903 in El Barco de Ávila , Spain , † June 13, 1975 in Rome ) was Archbishop of Pamplona and Cardinal Curia of the Roman Catholic Church .

Life

Arturo Tabera Araoz entered the religious community of the Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and studied Catholic theology and philosophy in Jerez de los Caballeros and Rome . In 1928 he received the sacrament of ordination and then continued his university studies, which he completed with a doctorate in canon law . He was a member of the faculty of the Zafra School of Theology from 1930 to 1946 and worked as director of the magazine " Illustración del Clero " in Madrid . In addition, he carried out the task of secretary of the study prefecture of his order and founded the magazine " Vida religiosa ".

In 1946, Pope Pius XII appointed him . the titular bishop of Lyrbe and ordered him to Apostolic Administrator of Barbastro in Spain. In 1950 he became Bishop of Albacete . From 1962 to 1965 he took part in the Second Vatican Council . In 1968 Pope Paul VI appointed him . to the Archbishop of Pamplona.

Arturo Tabera Araoz was admitted to the College of Cardinals in 1969 as a cardinal priest with the titular church of San Pietro in Montorio . From 1971 he headed the Congregation for Divine Worship, founded in 1969, as prefect . This emerged in 1969 from the Consilium for the Reform of the Liturgy and continued its work. The founding prefect, Benno Cardinal Gut , died in 1970. After an interim phase in which the bustling congregation was directly subordinate to the State Secretariat , Cardinal Tabera took over the leadership until 1973, but came into conflict with the secretary of the congregation, Annibale Bugnini . While the Congregation for Divine Worship was turned over to James Robert Cardinal Knox , who in 1975 advocated its amalgamation with the Congregation for the Discipline of the Sacred, Tabera was appointed Prefect of the Congregation for Religious . As a papal legate, he represented Paul VI. at several important events in Italy and abroad.

He died on June 13, 1975 in Rome and was buried in the Sacred Heart Basilica there.

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predecessor Office successor
- Bishop von Barbastro
Apostolic Administrator 1946–1950
Diocesan Bishop 1950
Pedro Cantero Cuadrado (es)
Bishopric newly established Bishop of Albacete
1950–1968
Ireneo García Alonso
Enrique Delgado y Gómez Archbishop of Pamplona (-Tudela)
1968–1971
José Méndez Asensio (es)
Ildebrando Cardinal Antoniutti Prefect of the Congregation for Religious and Secular
Institutes 1973–1975
Eduardo Francisco Cardinal Pironio