Arturo Tabera Araoz

Arturo Cardinal Tabera Araoz CMF ( born October 29, 1903 in Barco de Avila, Spain, † June 13, 1975 in Rome) was archbishop of Pamplona and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

Arturo Tabera Araoz joined the Congregation of the Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and studied in Jerez de los Caballeros and Rome, the subjects Catholic theology and philosophy. In 1928 he received the sacrament of Holy Orders, and then continued his university studies, graduating Canon Law with a doctorate in the subject. He was a member from 1930 to 1946 at the Faculty of Theology School of Zafra and worked as the director of the magazine " illustracion del Clero " in Madrid. In addition, he knew the job of secretary of the study Prefecture his Order and founded the magazine " Vida religiosa ".

In 1946, he was named by Pope Pius XII. Titular Bishop of Lyrbe and appointed him as Apostolic Administrator of Barbastro in Spain. In 1950, he was then Bishop of Albacete. In the years 1962 to 1965, he took part in the Second Vatican Council. 1968 Pope Paul VI appointed him. Archbishop of Pamplona.

Arturo Tabera Araoz was recorded in 1969 as a cardinal priest with the titular church of San Pietro in Montorio in the College of Cardinals. He ran in 1971 as prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, founded in 1969. This was in 1969 emerged from the Consilium for the reform of the liturgy and continued its work. The founding prefect, Benno Cardinal Gut, died in 1970. According to an intermediate phase in which the enterprising Congregation was the Secretary of State under the direct, took over until 1973 Cardinal Tabera the line, but came into conflict with the secretary of the Congregation, Annibale Bugnini. While the Congregation for Divine Worship was then handed over to James Robert Cardinal Knox, who advocated its 1975 merger with the Congregation for Discipline of the Sacraments, Tabera was appointed Prefect of the Congregation for Religious. As an Pontifical Legate he took Paul VI. in several important events in Italy and abroad.

He already died on 13 June 1975 in Rome and was buried in the local Heart of Mary 's Basilica.