Manuel Abad y Lasierra

Manuel Abad y Lasierra OSB (born December 24, 1729 in Estadilla , Huesca Province , Spain , † January 12, 1806 in Saragossa ) was a Spanish bishop .

Life

Manuel Abad y Lasierra was the son of Francisco Abad Navarro and María Teresa Lasierra and brother of Agustín Iñigo Abad y Lasierra , Bishop of Barbastro . After studying in Huesca, he initially accepted a benefit at the local cathedral church. He later became a Benedictine monk in the monastery of San Juan de la Peña . In 1771 he sighted on behalf of King Charles III. of Spain the archives and libraries of the Tarraconian Benedictine Congregation and two years later the archives of the Kingdom of Aragon.

On July 18, 1783 Abad became the first bishop of Ibiza appointed and 17th the following August by the Archbishop of Toledo , Cardinal Francisco Antonio de Lorenzana y Butrón, bishop ordained . Among other things, he created a church statute and divided the diocesan area of ​​the island into parishes. Since September 28, 1787 he had the episcopal dignity of Astorga , which he resigned on April 9, 1791. He became a canon in Toledo , in April 1792 Titular Bishop of Selymbria and resided in Madrid . From 1793 he was Inquisitor General of Spain, but only held this office for one year. From 1794 to 1797 he lived in the Benedictine monastery of Sopetrán ( Guadalajara province ) and then returned to his homeland. He died in Zaragoza in 1806 at the age of 76.

Abad is the author of numerous historical works, particularly on church history and palaeography . As his first work he published Noticia ... del Serenísimo Sr. Don Juan de Austria ... hijo del Católico Rey D. Felipe IV ... (Pamplona 1767).

literature

• L. Serrano: Abad y Lasierra (Manuel) . In: Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques , Vol. 1, 1913, Col. 9f

Web links

• Entry on Manuel Abad y Lasierra on catholic-hierarchy.org