José María Setién Alberro

José María Setién Alberro (born March 19, 1928 in Hernani , Gipuzkoa , † July 10, 2018 in Donostia-San Sebastián ) was a Spanish Catholic theologian and bishop of San Sebastián .

Life

José María Setién Alberro was ordained a priest for the diocese of San Sebastián on June 29, 1951 . In 1955 he was appointed professor of moral theology at the seminary of Vitoria and from 1960 he was professor at the Pontifical University of Salamanca , both in the faculty of canon law and in theology, of which he was dean.

Pope Paul VI appointed him on September 18, 1972 titular bishop of Zama Minor and auxiliary bishop in San Sebastián. The Bishop of San Sebastián Jacinto Argaya Goicoechea donated him episcopal ordination on October 28 of the same year ; Co- consecrators were Francisco Peralta y Ballabriga , Bishop of Vitoria , and Antonio Añoveros Ataún , Bishop of Bilbao . On February 16, 1979, he was appointed Bishop of San Sebastian. On January 13, 2000, Pope John Paul II accepted his early resignation for health reasons.

Setién Alberro wrote 14 books and numerous other writings. With the book Un obispo vasco ante ETA (German: “A Basque Bishop before ETA”) published in 2007 , he dealt with the ETA . He was then attacked as an "ETA priest", but only presented his pastoral work against the background of ETA and its emergence, its development into an armed terrorist group and its relationship with the PNV . He analyzed the struggle against the ETA, the role of the state, the repression, the victims and the situation of the ETA prisoners.

In 2018 he was recognized by the Sabino Arana Foundation for his life's work. In 2003 he received the Medalla de Oro de la Diputación de Gipuzkoa .

Web links

Entry on José María Setién Alberro on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on July 10, 2018.
Entry on José María Setién Alberro on gcatholic.org (English)
Literature by and about José María Setién Alberro in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual proof

^ Fallce el obispo emérito de San Sebastián José María Setién que fue vicario de la Diócesis de Santander. In: 20 minutes . July 10, 2018, accessed July 10, 2018 (Spanish).
^ ^A ^b Muere el polémico obispo emérito de San Sebastián José María Setién. In: La Vanguardia . July 10, 2018, accessed July 10, 2018 (Spanish).

predecessor	Office	successor
Jacinto Argaya Goicoechea	Bishop of San Sebastian 1979-2000	Juan María Uriarte Goiricelaya

personal data
SURNAME	Setién Alberro, José María
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Setién, José María
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Spanish clergyman, Roman Catholic bishop of San Sebastián
DATE OF BIRTH	March 19, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hernani
DATE OF DEATH	July 10, 2018
Place of death	Donostia-San Sebastian

[1] Fallce el obispo emérito de San Sebastián José María Setién que fue vicario de la Diócesis de Santander. In: 20 minutes . July 10, 2018, accessed July 10, 2018 (Spanish).

[lavanguardia-2] A ^b Muere el polémico obispo emérito de San Sebastián José María Setién. In: La Vanguardia . July 10, 2018, accessed July 10, 2018 (Spanish).