Francisco Javier Martínez Fernández

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Bishop Francisco Javier Martínez Fernández.
Archbishop Martinez Fernández's coat of arms

Francisco Javier Martínez Fernández (born December 20, 1947 in Madrid ) is a Spanish clergyman and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Granada .

Life

He was born in Madrid and in the seminary of Madrid-Alcalá trained. On April 3, 1972, he was ordained a priest . He graduated from the Pontifical University of Comillas and is an alumnus of the École biblique in Jerusalem. He completed a master's program at the Catholic University of America and received his doctorate in philosophy and Semitic linguistics there in 1985 . Between 1972 and 1985 he was first pastor in Casarrubuelos (near Madrid), then taught at the seminary of Toledo and finally was assistant professor at the University of America. On March 20, 1985 he was appointed titular bishop of Voli by the Pope and appointed auxiliary bishop in Madrid. On May 11, 1985 he was ordained bishop by Ángel Suquía Goicoechea ; Co- consecrators were Cardinal Vicente Enrique y Tarancón and Archbishop Antonio Innocenti . In 1996 he was appointed Bishop of Córdoba and in 2003 he was appointed Archbishop of Granada.

In 2009 Martínez came under criticism for his moralizing remarks on abortion . elcorreoweb.es quotes his statements that abortion practices are a “silent genocide ”, as well as his comparisons between Spain and National Socialism . Martínez went on to say that “this crime [of a woman] against her innocent child” gives “men the absolute right to limit the abuse of their bodies.” The Bishops' Office of the South justified these statements in a clarification and initially pointed to “the abuse of her own body and that of her child ”and then to explain that a man subsequently has“ absolute authority to do what he wants with this woman and her body ”.

In 2014 he got into talk another time because of his improper conduct in an abuse scandal in Granada in which ten priests and two lay people from his diocese are involved. He is said to have intervened too late, and only under pressure from the Vatican, after a victim complained directly to Pope Francis.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Francisco Javier Martínez Fernández on catholic-hierarchy.org
  2. ↑ D. Cela: El arzobispo de Granada: "Si la mujer aborta, el varón puede abusar de ella" ( Memento of December 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), ElCorreoWeb.es (December 22, 2009)
  3. ↑ Javier Martínez: La humanidad retrocede ante este genocidio silencioso via odisur.es
  4. ↑ Pope's intervention: Spanish priests allegedly abused minors , Spiegel Online, November 24, 2014
predecessor Office successor
José Antonio Infantes Florido Bishop of Cordoba
1996-2003 		Juan José Asenjo Pelegrina
Antonio Cañizares Llovera Archbishop of Granada
since 2003
personal data
SURNAME Martínez Fernández, Francisco Javier
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish Catholic Archbishop
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid