Gregorio Modrego y Casaus

Gregorio Modrego y Casaús (born November 17, 1890 in El Buste , Saragossa Province , Spain , † January 16, 1972 in Barcelona ) was a Spanish clergyman and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Barcelona .

Life

Gregorio Modrego y Casaus studied at the seminary in Tarazona and at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome . In Rome he was a seminarian at the Pontifical Spanish College of St. Joseph . He was ordained a priest on May 13, 1914 .

Pope Pius X appointed him shortly before the Spanish Civil War in 1936 titular bishop of Aezani and appointed him auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Toledo . The Archbishop of Toledo, Isidro Cardinal Gomá y Tomás , donated him episcopal ordination on October 11, 1936; Co- consecrators were Marcelino Olaechea Loizaga SDB , Archbishop of Valencia , and Nicanor Mutiloa e Irurita CSsR , Bishop of Tarazona . After the end of the civil war, he was general of the Bula de la Santa Cruzada from 1940 to 1942 .

Pope Pius XII appointed him Bishop of Barcelona on December 30, 1942 . On October 27, 1952, Pope Pius XII awarded him. the personal title of archbishop. With the elevation of the diocese to the archbishopric of Barcelona by Pope Paul VI. on March 25, 1964 he was appointed Archbishop of Barcelona. With his age-related resignation on January 7, 1967, he was appointed titular archbishop of Mons in Numidia . Because of the changed allocation guidelines of the Curia , he renounced his titular seat on December 11, 1970.

Web links

• Entry on Gregorio Modrego y Casaus on catholic-hierarchy.org

predecessor	Office	successor
Manuel Irurita y Almándoz	Bishop of Barcelona 1942–1964	---
---	Archbishop of Barcelona 1964–1967	Marcelo González Martín