Manuel Arce y Ochotorena

Manuel Cardinal Arce y Ochotorena (born August 18, 1879 in Ororbia near Pamplona , Spain , † September 16, 1948 in Tarragona ) was Archbishop of Tarragona .

Life

Manuel Arce y Ochotorena studied in Pamplona , Zaragoza and Rome as a seminarian at the Pontifical Spanish College of St. Joseph , the subjects philosophy and Catholic theology . In 1904 he received the sacrament of ordination and then became a lecturer at the seminary of Pamplona. In addition to his teaching activities, he worked as a capitular vicar and later also as a vicar general .

In 1929 Pope Pius XI appointed him . to the bishop of Zamora . The episcopal ordination donated to him on June 16, 1929 Archbishop Federico Tedeschini , Apostolic Nuncio in Spain; Co- consecrators were Tomás Muniz Pablos , Bishop of Pamplona , and Mateo Múgica y Urrestarazu , Bishop of Vitoria . On January 22, 1938, Manuel Arce y Ochotorena was raised to Archbishop of Oviedo . Pope Pius XII commissioned him in 1944 with the management of the Archdiocese of Tarragona and accepted him in 1946 as a cardinal priest with the titular church Santi Vitale, Valeria, Gervasio e Protasio in the cardinals college . In 1947 he was awarded the Grand Cross with Collane of the Order de Isabel la Católica .

Manuel Arce y Ochotorena died on September 16, 1948 in Tarragona and was buried in the local episcopal church.

predecessor	Office	successor
Francisco de Asís Vidal y Barraquer	Archbishop of Tarragona 1944–1948	Benjamin de Arriba y Castro
Justo Antonino de Echeguren y Aldama	Archbishop of Oviedo 1938–1944	Benjamin de Arriba y Castro
Antonio Alvaro y Ballano	Bishop of Zamora 1929–1938	Jaime Font y Andreu

personal data
SURNAME	Arce y Ochotorena, Manuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Arce y Ochotorena, Manuel Cardinal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Spanish clergyman, Archbishop of Tarragona and Cardinal
DATE OF BIRTH	August 18, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ororbia , Spain
DATE OF DEATH	September 16, 1948
Place of death	Tarragona