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Sacred Heart Church, Gibraltar
Sacred Heart Church is a Catholic church in Gibraltar. Description The church is of Gothic design, the foundation stone was laid on March 25, 1874, attended by Félix María Arrieta y Llano, Bishop of Cadiz, and John Baptist Scandella, Vicar Apostolic of Gibraltar, although it was not formally blessed until July 15, 1888. Amongst the parish priests of this church was Charles Caruana who went on to be the Roman Catholic Bishop of Gibraltar between 1998 and 2010. In the patio of the church is a grotto dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes. References Sacred Heart The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus ( la, Cor Jesu Sacratissimum) is one of the most widely practised and well-known Catholic devotions, wherein the heart of Jesus is viewed as a symbol of "God's boundless and passionate love for mankind". This devo ... Roman Catholic churches completed in 1888 19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United Kingdom {{Gibraltar-struct-stub ...
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Gibraltar
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Félix María Arrieta Y Llano
Félix María Arrieta y Llano (15 March 1811 – 29 December 1879) was a Spanish Bishop of Cadiz and Ceuta. Biography Félix María Arrieta was born in Cádiz in 1811 and became a priest in 1835 in the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin The Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (; Post-nominal letters, postnominal abbr. O.F.M. Cap.) is a religious order of Franciscans, Franciscan friars within the Catholic Church, one of Three "Religious institute#Nomenclature, First Orders" that refo .... He was ordained to be a Bishop in 1864 having been selected the year before. He resigned in early 1879 and died later that year. References 1811 births 1879 deaths People from Cádiz 19th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Spain Capuchin bishops {{Spain-RC-bishop-stub ...
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Bishop Of Cadiz
A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is called episcopacy. Organizationally, several Christian denominations utilize ecclesiastical structures that call for the position of bishops, while other denominations have dispensed with this office, seeing it as a symbol of power. Bishops have also exercised political authority. Traditionally, bishops claim apostolic succession, a direct historical lineage dating back to the original Twelve Apostles or Saint Paul. The bishops are by doctrine understood as those who possess the full priesthood given by Jesus Christ, and therefore may ordain other clergy, including other bishops. A person ordained as a deacon, priest (i.e. presbyter), and then bishop is understood to hold the fullness of the ministerial priesthood, given responsibility by ...
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John Baptist Scandella
John Baptist Scandella STD (Gibraltar, 19 September 1821 - id., 27 August 1880) was a Gibraltarian Roman Catholic priest of Genoese descent. He was Vicar Apostolic of the Diocese of Gibraltar between 1857 and 1880. He spoke fluent English and his native Spanish. Scandella is mainly remembered in Gibraltar for seeing the return of the statue of Our Lady of Europe to Gibraltar from Algeciras in Spain and for his efforts to improve education in the territory. Early life He was born to a Gibraltarian family of Genoese descent. As a child, he was a pupil of the Christian Brothers during their first stay in Gibraltar (1835-1837) and since he was very young he felt the call of the vocation to priesthood. He was a gifted student who later obtained a Doctorate of Sacred Theology with the mark of ''magna cum laude''. Career He was ordained priest on 25 March 1845 and was seconded to Corfu (then under British rule) as Vicar General to Bishop Nicholson. He remained there for ten years, re ...
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Vicar Apostolic Of Gibraltar
The Latin Bishop of Gibraltar is the Ordinary (Catholic Church), ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gibraltar, covering the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, which is exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See, not part of any ecclesiastical province, nor is it part of any (Spanish or British) episcopal conference. The Diocese's episcopal seat (cathedra) is located in the Cathedral of St. Mary the Crowned. The diocese also has a National Shrine of Our Lady of Europe. The incumbent, the Right Reverend Carmelo Zammit, who was Appointment of Catholic bishops, appointed Bishop of Gibraltar on 24 June 2016 and received Bishop (Catholic Church), episcopal ordination on 8 September 2016, was installed there on 24 September 2016. Lacking independence, the tiny territory (governed as British overseas territory, but claimed by Spain) had no diplomatic relations, so no papal diplomatic representation. History * Established on 25 January 1816 as Apostolic Vicariate ...
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Our Lady Of Lourdes Grotto, Sacred Heart Church
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Charles Caruana
Charles Caruana CBE (9 October 1932, Gibraltar – 1 October 2010, Gibraltar"Former Bishop Caruana has died"
) was a Roman Catholic bishop of Maltese descent. He was appointed sixth Roman Catholic Bishop of Gibraltar on 14 February 1998 and ordained on 24 May 1998. His retirement request was accepted on 18 March 2010. He died at

Roman Catholic Bishop Of Gibraltar
The Latin Bishop of Gibraltar is the ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gibraltar, covering the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, which is exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See, not part of any ecclesiastical province, nor is it part of any (Spanish or British) episcopal conference. The Diocese's episcopal seat (cathedra) is located in the Cathedral of St. Mary the Crowned. The diocese also has a National Shrine of Our Lady of Europe. The incumbent, the Right Reverend Carmelo Zammit, who was appointed Bishop of Gibraltar on 24 June 2016 and received episcopal ordination on 8 September 2016, was installed there on 24 September 2016. Lacking independence, the tiny territory (governed as British overseas territory, but claimed by Spain) had no diplomatic relations, so no papal diplomatic representation. History * Established on 25 January 1816 as Apostolic Vicariate of Gibraltar (''Gibilterra in Curiate Italian'', Latin adjective ''Gibraltarien(s ...
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Our Lady Of Lourdes
Our Lady of Lourdes (french: Notre-Dame de Lourdes) is a title of the Virgin Mary. She is venerated under this title by the Roman Catholic church due to her apparitions that occurred in Lourdes, France. The first apparition of 11 February 1858, of which Bernadette Soubirous (age 14) told her mother that a "Lady" spoke to her in the cave of Massabielle ( from the town) while she was gathering firewood with her sister and a friend. Similar apparitions of the "Lady" were reported on 18 occasions that year, until the climax revelation of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception took place. On 18 January 1862, the local Bishop of Tarbes Bertrand-Sévère Laurence endorsed the veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lourdes. On 1 February 1876, Pope Pius IX officially granted a decree of canonical coronation to the image as ''Notre-Dame du Saint Rosaire''. The coronation was performed by Cardinal Pier Francesco Meglia at the courtyard of what is now part of the Rosary Basilica on 3 July ...
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Roman Catholic Churches In Gibraltar
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Roman Catholic Churches Completed In 1888
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