Manuel Arce y Ochotorena

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Styles of Manuel Cardinal Arce y Ochotorena
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Tarragona

Manuel Cardinal Arce y Ochotorena (August 18, 1879—September 16, 1948) was a Spanish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Tarragona from 1944 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1946 by Pope Pius XII.

[edit] Biography

Born in Ororbia, Pamplona, Manuel Arce y Ochotorena attended the seminaries in Pamplona and Zaragoza before going to Rome to study at the Pontifical Gregorian University and the Angelicum. He was ordained to the priesthood on July 17, 1904, and then taught at Pamplona's seminary. Also serving as vicar capitular and vicar general of Pamplona, Ochotorena was made an Apostolic Protonotary on December 3, 1926.

On February 5, 1929, he was appointed Bishop of Zamora by Pope Pius XI. He received his episcopal consecration on the following June 16 from Archbishop Federico Tedeschini, with Bishops Tomás Muñiz Pablos and Mateo Múgica y Urrestarazu serving as co-consecrators, in the Cathedral of Pamplona.

Ochotorena was later made Bishop of Oviedo on January 22, 1938, and Archbishop of Tarragona on March 29, 1944. Pope Pius XII created him Cardinal Priest of Ss. Vitale, Valeria, Gervasio e Protasio in the consistory of February 18, 1946.

The Cardinal died in Tarragona, at age 69. He is buried in the metropolitan cathedral of that same city.

[edit] Trivia

• Benjamín de Arriba y Castro succeeded Ochotorena as both Bishop of Oviedo and Archbishop of Tarragona.

[edit] External links

• Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church
• Catholic-Hierarchy