Ciriaco Sancha y Hervás

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Blessed Ciriaco Sancha y Hervás as Bishop of Madrid (1889)

Ciriaco María Cardinal Sancha y Hervás (born June 17, 1833 in Quintana del Pidio near Burgos , † February 26, 1909 in Toledo ) was Archbishop of Toledo and Primate of Spain . He was beatified in Toledo on October 18, 2009 .

Life

priest

Ciriaco María Sancha y Hervás studied at the University of Salamanca , where he received a degree in theology . He was ordained a priest on June 27, 1858 . Sancha y Hervás worked as a lecturer of philosophy at the seminary of Osma . From 1862 to 1876 he worked as a clerk in the archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba and was professor of moral theology at the seminar there . On August 5, 1869, he founded an Order of Sisters of Mercy . During the vacancy of the archbishopric in 1868, the Spanish government appointed brother Pedro Llorente Miguel to succeed the local archbishop without the consent of the Vatican . Both Monsignor José María Orberá Carrión , the vicar capital of the Archdiocese, and his secretary Sancha opposed this decision and were subsequently imprisoned. The local schism ended in 1874, and both were then released.

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bishop

Sancha was founded by Pope Pius IX. on January 28, 1876 appointed titular bishop of Areopolis and auxiliary bishop in Toledo. He was ordained bishop on March 12, 1876, by the Archbishop of Toledo, Juan de la Cruz Ignacio Moreno y Maisonave . Sancha was appointed Bishop of Avila on March 27, 1882 , Bishop of Madrid on June 10, 1886, and finally Archbishop of Valencia on July 11, 1892 .

cardinal

Pope Leo XIII. elevated Sancha y Hervás to cardinalate on May 18, 1894 . In December 1895 he received the cardinal's hat from the title of San Pietro in Montorio in Rome . On March 24, 1898 he was appointed Archbishop of Toledo and received the title of Patriarch of the West Indies associated with this office . He took part in the 1903 conclave that Pope Pius X elected.

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