Juan Ángel Belda Dardiñá

Juan Ángel Belda Dardiñá (born September 7, 1926 in Bilbao , Spain , † February 22, 2010 in Huesca ) was a Spanish clergyman and Roman Catholic bishop of Jaca and later of León .

Life

Juan Ángel Belda Dardiñá attended a Jesuit high school in Bilbao. He studied civil law at the University of Valladolid and taught the subject at the University of Deusto . He trained as a priest in Bilbao and studied canon law at the Pontifical University of Comillas and at the Pontifical Gregorian University . He was ordained a priest on June 29, 1960 in Bilbao .

Dardiñá was then professor of moral theology at the Derio seminary, prosecutor and defender of the ecclesiastical courts, responsible for the ongoing formation of the clergy and priests in the diocese of Bilbao. He was also a professor of natural law in the Faculty of Theology at Deusto University.

On January 31, 1978, Pope Paul VI appointed him . to the Bishop of Jaca. He was ordained bishop by the Apostolic Nuncio in Spain and later Cardinal to the Curia , Luigi Dadaglio , on April 1, 1978; Co- consecrators were Elías Yanes Álvarez , Archbishop of Saragossa , and José María Cirarda Lachiondo , Archbishop of Pamplona . From June 1981 to February 1982 he was also Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Tarazona during the Sedis vacancy . On July 28, 1983, he was appointed Bishop of León and on August 30 of the same year he was appointed to the office. On February 9, 1987, he renounced the diocese of León and served as general secretary of the Spanish Bishops' Conference . In 1989 he resigned for health reasons.

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predecessor	Office	successor
Fernando Sebastián Aguilar	Bishop of León 1983–1987	Antonio Vilaplana Molina
Angel Hidalgo Ibáñez	Bishop of Jaca 1978–1983	Rosendo Alvarez Gastón

personal data
SURNAME	Belda Dardiñá, Juan Ángel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Spanish clergyman, Roman Catholic Bishop of León
DATE OF BIRTH	September 7, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bilbao , Spain
DATE OF DEATH	February 22, 2010
Place of death	Huesca