Vicente Cardinal Enrique y Tarancón †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Madrid, Spain

Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni Crisostomo a Monte Sacro Alto

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
14 May 1907		Born
1 Nov 1929	22.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Tortosa, Spain
25 Nov 1945	38.5	Appointed	Bishop of Solsona, Spain
24 Mar 1946	38.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Solsona, Spain
12 Apr 1964	56.9	Appointed	Archbishop of Oviedo, Spain
30 Jan 1969	61.7	Appointed	Archbishop of Toledo, Spain
28 Apr 1969	61.9	Elevated to Cardinal
28 Apr 1969	61.9	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni Crisostomo a Monte Sacro Alto
3 Dec 1971	64.5	Appointed	Archbishop of Madrid, Spain
12 Apr 1983	75.9	Retired	Archbishop of Madrid, Spain
28 Nov 1994	87.5	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Madrid, Spain

MicroData Summary
Vicente Enrique y Tarancón
Vicente Cardinal Enrique y Tarancón
(born 14 May 1907, died 28 Nov 1994)
Archbishop Emeritus of Madrid

Second Vatican Council: Session One: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father
Consistory - 1969: Created Cardinal
Conclave - August 1978: Participated
Conclave - October 1978: Participated

Event Place
Birth Place Burriana, Diocese of Tortosa
Ordained Bishop Salvador, Church, Burriana, Diocese of Tortosa
Death Place Valencia, Archdiocese of Valencia

a priest for 65.0 years
a bishop for 48.6 years
a cardinal for 25.5 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Félix Bilbao y Ugarriza †
Bishop of Tortosa
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Manuel Moll y Salord †
Bishop of Tortosa
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Casimiro Morcillo González †
Titular Bishop of Agathopolis
Bishop Juan Hervás y Benet †
Titular Bishop of Alinda

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Manuel Moll y Salord † (1937)
Bishop of Tortosa
Federico Cardinal Tedeschini † (1921)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Vittoria
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Mariano Anastasio Moreno García, O.S.A. † (1964)
Archbishop Braulio Rodríguez Plaza (1972)
Archbishop Jaume Pujol Balcells (1973)
Archbishop Miguel Maury Buendía (1980)
Principal Consecrator of:
Archbishop José Pont y Gol † (1951)
Bishop Rafael Torija de la Fuente † (1969)
Archbishop Teodoro Cardenal Fernández † (1970)
Archbishop Sotero Sanz Villalba † (1970)
Bishop Victorio Oliver Domingo (1972)
José Manuel Cardinal Estepa Llaurens † (1972)
Bishop Alberto Iniesta Jiménez † (1972)
Antonio María Cardinal Javierre Ortas, S.D.B. † (1976)
Fernando Cardinal Sebastián Aguilar, C.M.F. † (1979)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Ramón Masnou Boixeda † (1952)
Archbishop Antonio Montero Moreno † (1969)
Bishop Antonio Dorado Soto † (1970)
Agustín Cardinal García-Gasco y Vicente † (1985)
Archbishop Francisco Javier Martínez Fernández (1985)
Bishop Francisco José Pérez y Fernández-Golfin † (1985)
Bishop Antonio Ángel Algora Hernando † (1985)
Bishop Rafael Sanus Abad † (1989)

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/159967
VIAF: 44441819
WikiData: Q553172

Source(s):

ob/c2/d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 140
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 141, Necrology (back)
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1946, Number 20
c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 8, Number 361, Ascendance
c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 11, Number 518, Ascendance
c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 12, Number 619, Ascendance
c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 20, Number 1,097, Ascendance

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