José Ignacio Munilla Aguirre

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Coat of arms of Bishop José Ignacio Munilla Aguirre

José Ignacio Munilla Aguirre (born November 13, 1961 in Zumarraga , Spain ) is a Spanish clergyman and Roman Catholic bishop of San Sebastián .

Life

José Ignacio Munilla Aguirre studied Catholic theology and philosophy at the Colegio del Sagrado Corazón de Mundaiz in Donostia-San Sebastián and at the seminary in Toledo . He received on 29 June 1986, the sacrament of Holy Orders . Munilla Aguirre became vicar in the parish of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción in Zumarraga. José Ignacio Munilla Aguirre holds a degree in spirituality from the Theological Faculty of Northern Spain in Burgos .

On June 24, 2006, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him . to the Bishop of Palencia . The Apostolic Nuncio in Spain, Archbishop Manuel Monteiro de Castro , donated him episcopal ordination on September 10 of the same year ; Co- consecrators were the Bishop of San Sebastián, Juan María Uriarte Goiricelaya , and the Bishop of Orihuela-Alicante , Rafael Palmero .

Pope Benedict XVI appointed him Bishop of San Sebastián on November 21, 2009. The inauguration took place on January 9, 2010.

Munilla, who is considered to be very conservative and “backward-looking”, had to contend with resistance in his Basque diocese from the start. A group of Priests of the diocese to which 85 pastors (or 77% of the gipuzkoanischen Pfarr clergy) and 11 of 14 dean among the diocese, signed in advance of the inauguration a call with which the then chairman of the Spanish Bishops , Cardinal Rouco of Madrid , and Pope Benedict XVI. called for the appointment to be canceled. After six years of his pontificate, the bishop has, according to critics, to which large parts of the clergy still belong, filled all important posts in the diocese hierarchy with followers from his clientele . According to insiders, church life in Gipuzkoa stagnated under Bishop Munilla and almost came to a standstill. At the end of 2018 there were again public protests against the bishop because he had entered the lucrative local hotel business with the church assets of his diocese , which critics did not consider ethically justifiable for a bishop.

Web links

Commons : José Ignacio Munilla Aguirre  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ José Manuel Vidal: "Monseñor Munilla está intentando llevar la diócesis a los tiempos de la cristiandad". In: Periodista Digital , October 14, 2017, accessed on March 29, 2019 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ La gran mayoría de los párrocos guipuzcoanos rechaza al nuevo obispo de San Sebastián. In: Público , December 15, 2009, accessed March 29, 2019 (Spanish).
  3. ↑ Cristianos de Guipúzcoa denuncian que "tras seis años de Munilla, la vida de la Iglesia se encuentra medio muerta". In: Religión Digital , February 26, 2016, accessed on March 29, 2019 (Spanish).
  4. ^ Protesta contra el obispo Munilla por embarcarse en el "negocio hotelero". In: El Mundo , December 15, 2018, accessed on March 29, 2019 (Spanish).
predecessor Office successor
Juan María Uriarte Goiricelaya Bishop of San Sebastián
since 2009 		---
Rafael Palmero Bishop of Palencia
2006–2009 		Esteban Escudero Torres
personal data
SURNAME Munilla Aguirre, José Ignacio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish clergyman and Roman Catholic bishop of San Sebastián
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Zumarraga , Spain