Vicente Enrique y Tarancón

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Vicente Cardinal Enrique y Tarancón (14 May, 1907—28 November, 1994) was a Spanish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Madrid from 1971 to 1983, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1969.

Biography

Vicente Enrique y Tarancón was born in Burriana to Manuel Enrique Urios and his wife Vicenta Tarancón Fandos. His siblings included an older brother, Manuel, and a younger sister, Vicenta. At Vicente's baptism, his cousins Dolores Enrique Planelles and Vicente Ríos Enrique acted as his godparents. The baptismal certificate was later destroyed in a fire of the parochial archive in August 1936. After completing his initial studies at "Colegio de la Consolación" in Burriana, he attended the seminaries in Tortosa and Valencia. Enrique was ordained to the prieshood by Bishop Félix Bilbao y Ugarriza on 1 November, 1929 in Tortosa, and then did pastoral work in the Diocese of Tortosa until 1933. He worked with Catholic Action in the Diocese of Madrid from 1933 to 1938, when he resumed his pastoral ministry in Tortosa.

On 25 November, 1945, Enrique y Tarancón was appointed Bishop of Solsona by Pope Pius XII. He received his episcopal consecration on 24 March, 1946 from Bishop Manuel Moll y Salord, with Bishops Casimiro Morcillo González and Juan Hervás y Benet serving as co-consecrators. Enrique was made secretary of the Spanish Episcopal Conference in February 1953, and attended the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965. He was later named Archbishop of Oviedo on 12 April, 1964, and Archbishop of Toledo on 30 January, 1969. As Archbishop of Toledo, Enrique thus also served as Primate of Spain.

Pope Paul VI created him Cardinal Priest of "S. Giovanni Crisostomo a Monte Sacro Alto" in the consistory of 28 April, 1969. The Spanish primate was Apostolic Administrator of Madrid-Alcalá from 30 May, 1971 until becoming Archbishop of Madrid on 3 December, 1971. He was also named President of the Spanish Episcopal Conference that same year. Enrique was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the conclaves of August and October 1978, which selected Popes John Paul I and John Paul II respectively. He resigned as Madrid's archbishop on 12 April, 1983, after .

The Cardinal died in Valencia, at age 87. He is buried in the collegiate church of "San Isidro" at the Cathedral of Madrid.

External links

* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/benta.html Catholic-Hierarchy]
* [http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios-e.htm#Enrique Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church]