Eustaquio Cardinal Ilundáin y Esteban

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Eustaquio Cardinal Ilundáin y Esteban
Reference style His Eminence
Spoken style Your Eminence
Informal style Cardinal
See Seville


His Most Reverend Eminence Eustaquio Cardinal Ilundáin y Esteban (20 September 1862 - 10 August 1937) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and was former Archbishop of Seville.

Eustaquio Ilundáin y Esteban was born in Pamplona, Spain. He was educated at the Seminary of Pamplona, and the Seminary of Ciudad Real.

[edit] Priesthood

He was ordained in 1886 in Pamplona. He served as a faculty member of the Seminary of Pamplona from 1886 until 1891. From 1901 until 1904 he was the Rector of the Seminary of Segovia.

[edit] Episcopate

He was appointed as bishop of Orense by Pope Pius X on 14 November 1904. He served as a Senator of the Spanish Kingdom by the province of Santiago de Compostela. He was promoted to the metropolitan see of Seville on 16 December 1920.

[edit] Cardinalate

He was created and proclaimed Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna by Pope Pius XI in the consistory of March 30, 1925. He died while still in office in 1937.


Preceded by
Enrique Cardinal Almaraz y Santos
Archbishop of Seville
16 December 192010 August 1937
Succeeded by
Pedro Segura y Sáenz