Fernando Cardinal Sebastián Aguilar, C.M.F. †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Pamplona y Tudela, Spain

Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Angela Merici

Motto: Veritas In Caritate

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
14 Dec 1929		Born
8 Sep 1946	16.7	Professed	Member of Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
28 Jun 1953	23.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
22 Aug 1979	49.6	Appointed	Bishop of León, Spain
29 Sep 1979	49.7	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of León, Spain
28 Jul 1983	53.6	Resigned	Bishop of León, Spain
8 Apr 1988	58.3	Appointed	Coadjutor Archbishop of Granada, Spain
15 Sep 1991	61.7	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Málaga, Spain
26 Mar 1993	63.2	Appointed	Archbishop of Pamplona y Tudela, Spain
23 May 1993	63.4	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Málaga, Spain
15 Sep 2003	73.7	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Calahorra y La Calzada-Logroño, Spain
29 May 2004	74.4	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Calahorra y La Calzada-Logroño, Spain
31 Jul 2007	77.6	Retired	Archbishop of Pamplona y Tudela, Spain
22 Feb 2014	84.1	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Angela Merici
22 Feb 2014	84.1	Elevated to Cardinal
21 Sep 2014	84.7	Installed	Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Angela Merici
24 Jan 2019	89.1	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Pamplona y Tudela, Spain

MicroData Summary
Fernando Sebastián Aguilar
Fernando Cardinal Sebastián Aguilar C.M.F.
(born 14 Dec 1929, died 24 Jan 2019)
Archbishop Emeritus of Pamplona y Tudela

Consistory - 2014: Created Cardinal (Non-Voting)

Event Place
Birth Place Calatayud, Diocese of Tarazona (-Tudela)
Ordained Bishop Assumption, Cathedral, León, Diocese of León
Death Place Málaga, Diocese of Málaga
Buried Place (Original) Crypt, Cathedral, Málaga, Diocese of Málaga

a priest for 65.5 years
a bishop for 39.3 years
a cardinal for 4.9 years

Ordained Priest by:
Benjamín Cardinal de Arriba y Castro †
Archbishop of Tarragona
Principal Consecrator:
Vicente Cardinal Enrique y Tarancón †
Archbishop of Madrid
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Gabino Díaz Merchán †
Archbishop of Oviedo
Archbishop José Delicado Baeza †
Archbishop of Valladolid

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Vicente Cardinal Enrique y Tarancón † (1946)
Archbishop of Madrid
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 Jesús Fernández González (1980)
François-Xavier Cardinal Bustillo, O.F.M. Conv. (1994)
Principal Consecrator of:
Aquilino Cardinal Bocos Merino, C.M.F. (2018)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Luis Gutiérrez Martín, C.M.F. † (1988)
Bishop Carmelo Echenagusia Uribe † (1995)
Archbishop Juan Antonio Aznárez Cobo (2012)
Bishop Luis Ángel de las Heras Berzal, C.M.F. (2016)

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/118825
VIAF: 21425212
WikiData: Q8961383

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 31 Jul 2007
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 140
c: Bollettino, 12 Jan 2014
cp: Bollettino, 22 Feb 2014
i: Bollettino, 15 Sep 2014
d: CB, 24 Jan 2019
ob/c2/d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 239, Deceased Cardinals (back)
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 242, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 56, Number 4,134

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