Leopoldo Eijo y Garay

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Leopoldo Eijo y Garay (born April 11, 1878 in Vigo , Pontevedra province , † July 31, 1963 in Madrid ) was a Spanish bishop and writer.

Life

The age of five, he came with his mother to Seville , where he later entered the seminary and received on 27 December 1900, the priestly ordination . In 1914 he was appointed bishop of Tui . On November 8th, Cardinal Martín Herrera , Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela , donated him episcopal ordination . On March 22, 1917, Eijo y Garay became the seventh Bishop of Vitoria , succeeding Prudencio Melo y Alcalde , who had been appointed Bishop of Madrid-Alcalá .

After Melo's appointment as Archbishop of Valencia , he succeeded him on June 26, 1923 on the bishopric of Madrid-Alcalá; he held this for over forty years.

In addition to his church career, he developed an intensive activity as a writer. In 1927 he was accepted into the Real Academia Española . In 1932, during the Second Republic , he was accepted into the Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas . Eijo y Garay was also a member of the Real Academia Galega.

Bishop Eijo Garay played an important role in the early years of Opus Dei, founded by Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer in 1928 . He defended it against all attacks and ordained three of its members to priests on June 25, 1944, among them Álvaro del Portillo , the first successor of the founder.

Pope Pius XII appointed him on July 21, 1946 Patriarch of the West Indies . This title has not been awarded since his death in 1963.

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SURNAME Eijo y Garay, Leopoldo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish bishop and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Vigo
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1963
Place of death Madrid