Benjamín de Arriba y Castro (8 April 1886 – 8 March 1973) was a Catholic cardinal and archbishop.

Biography

He studied at the seminary in Madrid, the Pontifical Gregorian University and Angelicum in Rome, and the

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. Arriba was ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal

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on 14 July 1912 and then taught at the Madrid seminary until 1921. After becoming a canon of the cathedral chapter of Madrid on 17 February 1921, he served as secretary of the chamber and government of the same diocese from 1921 to 1930. Arriba was made provisor in 1930, and later vicar general in 1932. On 1 May 1935 Arriba was appointed

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. He received his episcopal consecration on the following 16 June from Bishop Leopoldo Eijo y Garay, with Archbishop Prudencio Melo y Alcalde and Bishop Manuel González y García serving as

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. Arriba was later named

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on 8 August 1944 and Archbishop of Tarragona on 22 January 1949.

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created him Cardinal Priest of '' Ss. Vitale, Valeria, Gervasio e Protasio'' in the consistory of 12 January 1953. After participating in the

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, Arriba attended the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965, and served as a

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in the conclave of 1963. He resigned as Tarragona's archbishop on 19 November 1970 after a period of twenty-one years. The Cardinal died at 3:45 p.m. in Barcelona, at age 86. He is buried in a parish church in Tarragona.

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Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church
{{DEFAULTSORT:Arriba Y Castro, Benjamin de 1886 births 1973 deaths 20th-century Spanish cardinals Cardinals created by Pope Pius XII Archbishops of Tarragona Bishops of Oviedo Participants in the Second Vatican Council 20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Spain