Manuel Arce y Ochotorena

Cardinal Manuel Arce y Ochotorena ( born August 18, 1879 in Ororbis, Spain, † September 16, 1948 in Tarragona) was Archbishop of Tarragona.

Life

Manuel Arce y Ochotorena studied in Pamplona, Zaragoza and Rome, as a seminarian at the Pontifical Spanish College of St. Joseph, the subjects of philosophy and Catholic theology. In 1904 he received the sacrament of Holy Orders and was then a lecturer at the Department of Pamplona. In addition to his teaching, he worked as a vicar and later as Vicar General.

1929 Pope Pius XI appointed him. Bishop of Zamora, in 1938 Archbishop of Oviedo. Pope Pius XII. commissioned him in 1944 to head the Archdiocese of Tarragona and took him in 1946 as a cardinal priest with the titular church of Santi Vitale, Valeria, Gervasio e Protasio in the College of Cardinals to. Manuel Arce y Ochotorena died on September 16, 1948 in Tarragona, and was buried in the local Episcopal church. In 1947 he was awarded the Grand Cross with Collar of the Order de Isabel la Católica.