Juan Soldevilla y Romero

Cardinal Juan Soldevilla y Romero ( born October 29, 1843 in Fuentelapeña, Zamora Province, † June 4, 1923 in Zaragoza ) was Archbishop of Saragossa.

Life

After visiting the seminaries in Valladolid, Santiago de Compostela and Toledo, he was ordained priest on 28 December 1867. He received in 1868 his doctorate in theology of the Central Seminary in Santiago de Compostela and then studied Canon Law at the seminar in Tui.

Soldevilla worked as a pastor in three parishes of the Archdiocese of Valladolid in 1875 and secretary of the Archbishop Cesáreo Rodrigo y Rodríguez, 1883 and 1887 Canon Archpriest. He sat in the Welfare Committee of the province and in the Committee for the reconstruction of churches. He was the preacher at the royal court and a knight of the Order de Isabel la Católica, a secretary of the chapter and auditor of the Synod. In 1885 he was a member of the junta to support the victims of a cholera epidemic.

On February 14, 1889, he was named Leo XIII. Bishop of Tarazona. The Archbishop of Valladolid, Benito Sanz y Fores, donated to him on April 28th of the same year, the episcopal ordination; Mariano Gómez Miguel were co-consecrators alguacil y Fernández, Bishop of Vitoria, and Cesáreo Rodrigo y Rodríguez, Bishop of Orense. Soldevilla was in the years 1889-1901 Apostolic Administrator of Tudela and on 16 December 1901 he was appointed Archbishop of Saragossa.

On December 15, 1919 it took Benedict XV. 76 -year-old on a cardinal priest with the titular church of Santa Maria del Popolo in the College of Cardinals. The King of Spain Alfonso XIII. presented to him at Christmas of the same year the biretta of the Cardinals. Soldevilla took part in the conclave in 1922, the Pius XI. chose.

At the age of 79 years, the Cardinal an assassination of the anarchist group Los Solidarios in Zaragoza fell victim. He is buried in the Basilica del Pilar.