Mateo Múgica Urrestarazu

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Mateo Múgica Urrestarazu (born September 21, 1870 in Idiazabal , † October 27, 1968 in Zarautz ; also Mateo Mújica Urrestarazu ) was a Spanish Roman Catholic bishop .

Life

Mateo Múgica studied at the Seminary of the Diocese of Vitoria and received on 23 December 1893, the priestly ordination . He was at the University of Salamanca for Doctor of theology doctorate and after a few years as a parish priest lecturer at the Seminary of Vitoria. In addition, Múgica Urrestarazu took on other activities in the diocese of Vitoria, including editor of the diocesan bulletin.

Pope Benedict XV appointed him Bishop of Osma on February 22, 1918 . He was ordained bishop on May 20th of the same year by Francesco Ragonesi , Apostolic Nuncio in Spain. Co- consecrators were Prudencio Melo y Alcalde , Bishop of Madrid , and Leopoldo Eijo y Garay , Bishop of Vitoria. In Osma he set new regulations for the seminary and worked with Catholic trade unions. He also gave sermons in Madrid , Barcelona and Pamplona, among others . Pope Pius XI appointed Mújica on October 26, 1923 Bishop of Pamplona . On June 24th, 1928 he returned to Vitoria as bishop, the appointment he had by Pius XI. received on March 10 of the same year.

In the early 1930s, Mateo Mújica Urrestarazu represented anti-republican positions and advised Catholics on the occasion of the local elections and the simultaneous proclamation of the Second Republic in 1931 not to elect candidates who would represent groups with anti-Catholic programs. In the same year he was expelled from Spain by the new Republican government and lived in exile in La Puye, France . After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War , he initially forbade the faithful to support the republic, but also condemned the violence of the Basque rebels, which also killed two priests of his diocese. In 1936 Múgica also dismissed a teacher from his seminar who publicly supported the nationalist politics of the PNV . On October 12, 1937, he resigned his episcopate and was appointed titular bishop of Cinna . After living in Rome for a long time , he returned to his Basque homeland in 1947, where he lived under police surveillance in the province of Gipuzkoa until his death in 1968 .

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SURNAME Múgica Urrestarazu, Mateo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mújica Urrestarazu, Mateo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish clergyman and Roman Catholic bishop
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Idiazabal
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1968
Place of death Zarautz