Juan de la Cruz Ignacio Moreno y Maisonave

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Juan de la Cruz Ignacio Cardinal Moreno y Maisonave

Juan de la Cruz Ignacio Cardinal Moreno y Maisonave (born November 24, 1817 in Guatemala , † August 28, 1884 in Madrid ) was a French cardinal of the Roman Church , who was last Archbishop of Toledo between 1875 and 1884 .

Life

He was the son of Miguel Moreno y Morán de Butrón (1782-1851), a native of Guayaquil , and his wife Dolores Maisonave, who came from Cádiz and whose father was French. A previous relative was Toribio de Mogrovejo , the canonized third Archbishop of Lima . His cousin Gabriel García Moreno (1821–1875) was later President of Ecuador .

The family left Guatemala in 1823 after the victory of the independence movement, but he saw Guatemala as his home throughout his life. After a short stay in Scotland, the family went to Spain. The father was a member of the Cortes of Cádiz and a civil servant. His training took place in Breenock in Scotland (1823), in Puerto de Santa María in Spain (1825), then in Valencia (1830), furthermore in 1834 at the Jesuit college in Madrid and finally at the Universidad Central of Madrid, where he was on August 7th 1842 obtained the academic degree of Doctor iuris utriusque . From March 1844 to 1849 he was Professor of Law (Notariado) at the Universidad Central .

Juan de la Cruz Ignacio Moreno y Maisonave was ordained a priest on July 1, 1849 . After August 1, 1857 Bishop of Oviedo had been chosen and confirmed on 25 August 1857, the Archbishop of Toledo donated to him on December 8, 1857 Cirilo de Alameda y Brea the episcopal ordination ; Co- consecrators were the Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba Antonius Maria Claret and Fernando de la Puente y Primo de Rivera , Archbishop of Burgos . He was then elected Archbishop of Valladolid on April 25, 1863 and confirmed on October 1, 1863, after which he took office on January 10, 1864.

At the consistory of March 13, 1868 he was by Pope Pius IX. elevated to cardinal and as such was appointed cardinal priest of Santa Maria della Pace on November 22, 1869 . He participated as a council father from December 8, 1869 to October 20, 1870 at the First Vatican Council and was elected Archbishop of Toledo on June 4, 1875 and confirmed as such on July 5, 1875. After the death of Pope Pius IX. on February 7, 1878 he took part in the conclave from February 18 to 20, 1878 , which Vincenzo Gioacchino Cardinal Pecci as Pope Leo XIII. chose.

He remained in the Archdiocese of Toledo until his death. He was buried in Toledo Cathedral .

literature

  • Vidal Guitarte Izquierdo: Episcopologio Español (1700–1867). Españoles obispos en España, América, Filipinas y otros países (= Publicaciones del Instituto Español de Historia Eclesiástica Subsidia 29). Instituto Español de Historia Eclesiástica, Rome 1994, p. 197.
  • Jean LeBlanc: Dictionnaire biographique des cardinaux du XIXe siècle. Contribution to l'histoire du Sacré Collège sous les pontificats de Pie VII, Léon XII, Pie VIII, Grégoire XVI, Pie IX et Léon XIII, 1800–1903. Wilson & Lafleur, Montréal 2007, pp. 660-662.
  • Jesús Martín Tejedor: Moreno y Maisonave, Juan de la Cruz Ignacio. In: Quintín Aldea Vaquero, Tomás Marín Martínez, José Vives Gatell (eds.): Diccionario de Historia Eclesiástica de España. 4 volumes. Instituto Enrique Flórez, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid 1972–1975, and supplementary volume, 1987, Volume II, Sp. 1741–1742.

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predecessor Office successor
Ignacio Díaz Caneja Bishop of Oviedo
1857–1863 		José Luis Montagut Rubio
Luis de la Lastra y Cuesta Archbishop of Valladolid
1863–1875 		Fernando Blanco y Lorenzo
Cirilo de Alameda y Brea
vacancy 1872–1875 		Archbishop of Toledo
1875–1884 		Ceferino González y Díaz-Tuñón
personal data
SURNAME Moreno y Maisonave, Juan de la Cruz Ignacio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Guatemala
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1884
Place of death Madrid