Braulio Rodríguez Plaza

Braulio Rodríguez Plaza

Coat of arms of the Primate of Spain, Archbishop Plaza

Braulio Rodríguez Plaza (born January 27, 1944 in Aldea del Fresno , Comunidad de Madrid , Spain ) is a Spanish clergyman and emeritus Roman Catholic Archbishop of Toledo and Primate of Spain .

Life

Braulio Rodríguez Plaza entered the seminary of the Archdiocese of Madrid in 1960 . After studying philosophy and Catholic theology , he received the sacrament of ordination on April 3, 1972 .

From 1972 to 1977 Braulio Rodríguez Plaza served as a priest in Cubas de la Sagra . He also obtained a licentiate in Biblical Theology from the Pontifical University of Comillas in 1973 . Then he was parish vicar in the parish of San Miguel Carabanchel in Madrid until 1979 . From 1979 to 1981 Braulio Rodríguez Plaza studied in Jerusalem at the École Biblique and obtained a diploma in Biblical Exegesis . Rodríguez Plaza was parish priest in the parish of San Fulgencio in Madrid from 1981 to 1984 . He then worked in the priestly formation of the Archdiocese of Madrid until 1987.

On November 6, 1987 appointed him Pope John Paul II. To the Bishop of Osma-Soria . He was ordained bishop on December 20, 1987, by the Apostolic Nuncio in Spain, Archbishop Mario Tagliaferri ; Co- consecrators were the Archbishop of Madrid, Cardinal Ángel Suquía , and the Archbishop of Burgos , Teodoro Cardenal Fernández . Rodríguez Plaza chose the motto No me avergüenzo del Evangelio (“I am not ashamed of the gospel”), which comes from Paul's letter to the Romans ( Rom 1.16  EU ). 1990 Braulio Rodríguez Plaza was at the Theological Faculty of Northern Spain in Burgos with an exegetical thesis entitled "El proceso de Jesús ante el Sanedrín y la Catequesis cristiana primitiva" ( "The Trial of Jesus before the Sanhedrin and the Early Christian catechesis") to doctor doctorate in theology . On May 12, 1995, Pope John Paul II appointed him Bishop of Salamanca . The inauguration took place on July 9, 1995.

On August 28, 2002, Pope John Paul II appointed him Archbishop of Valladolid . The inauguration took place on October 13, 2002. The pallium Braulio Rodríguez Plaza was awarded on June 29, 2003 by Pope John Paul II. In Rome . On April 16, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him . to the Archbishop of Toledo and thus to the Roman Catholic Primate of Spain . The inauguration took place on June 21, 2009.

On December 27, 2019, Pope Francis accepted Braulio Rodríguez Plaza’s resignation for reasons of age.

Fake news

On January 14, 2016, some media reported that the Archbishop had preached on December 27, 2015, taking the position that women who suffered from domestic violence are often themselves to blame for disobeying their husbands. This message was first distributed in German by the Humanist Press Service. According to reports from several German bloggers who had translated the Archbishop's sermon, the Catholic News Agency withdrew a report on the grounds that the Archbishop of Toledo had apparently been misquoted. Some other statements were also "apparently incorrectly or incompletely disseminated via the Spanish media".

Archbishop Rodríguez Plaza also rejected the allegations and called the quotations incorrect. Indeed, he had stated: “The majority of women who are killed are killed by their husbands who do not respect their wives, who reject them, perhaps because they sometimes do not obey their instructions; or they are killed by their ex-partners or by those with whom they lived. Often it is a machismo reaction that originates from her filing for divorce. It is wonderful that the women who are threatened say so (openly), and there are new safeguards to prevent a crime. But the real, serious problem is rooted in the fact that there was (actually) no true marriage among these married couples. "

Web links

• Entry for Braulio Rodríguez Plaza on catholic-hierarchy.org
• Biography on the homepage of the Archdiocese of Toledo (Spanish)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rinuncia dell'Arcivescovo Metropolita di Valladolid (Spagna) e Nomina del Successore. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , August 28, 2002, accessed January 14, 2016 (Italian). 
2. ^ Nomina dell'Arcivescovo di Toledo (Spagna). In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, April 16, 2009, accessed January 14, 2016 (Italian). 
3. ^ Rinuncia dell'Arcivescovo Metropolita di Toledo (Spagna) e nomina del nuovo Arcivescovo Metropolita. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, December 27, 2019, accessed December 27, 2019 (Italian). 
4. ↑ Spain: Archbishop blames domestic violence on 'disobedient wives'. The Local, January 5, 2016, accessed January 14, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Lee Moran: Spanish Archbishop Implies Women Are To Blame For Domestic Violence. The Huffington Post, January 5, 2016, accessed January 14, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Daniela Wakonigg: Disobedient women. Spanish Archbishop: Women to blame for domestic violence. Humanist Press Service, January 13, 2016, accessed January 17, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Withdrawn: The fight against macho culture '. kathisch.de, January 15, 2016, accessed January 15, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Spanish archbishop rejects allegations and incorrect quotations: Media misinterpretation. domradio.de, January 15, 2016, accessed on January 17, 2016 . 
9. ↑ quoted from the translation of the original text of the sermon by Anna Diuf: Braulio Rodriguez Plaza, Archbishop of Toledo: Sermon from December 27, 2015. (PDF (80 kB)) (No longer available online.) Disputata.de, 2016, archived from the original on January 15, 2016 ; accessed on January 18, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The original Spanish text of the sermon on the website of the Archdiocese of Toledo: Braulio Rodríguez Plaza: Sagrada Familia 2015: Homilía pronunciada por el Sr. Arzobispo de Toledo en la Santa Iglesia Catedral Primada el domingo 27 de diciembre de 2015. (No longer available online.) Archidiócesis de Toledo, 2015, archived from the original on January 15, 2016 ; Retrieved January 18, 2016 (Spanish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.     

predecessor	Office	successor
Antonio Cardinal Cañizares Llovera	Archbishop of Toledo 2009–2019	Francisco Cerro Chaves
José Delicado Baeza	Archbishop of Valladolid 2002–2009	Ricardo Cardinal Blázquez
Mauro Rubio Repullés	Bishop of Salamanca 1995–2002	Carlos López Hernández
José Diéguez Reboredo	Bishop of Osma-Soria 1987–1995	Francisco Pérez González