Fernando Quiroga Palacios (21 January 1900 – 7 December 1971) was a Spanish

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of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela from 1949 until his death and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1953 by

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Biography

Fernando Quiroga Palacios was born in San Pedro de Maceda, near Maceda,

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, and studied at the seminary in Ourense, the

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of Santiago de Compostela, and the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. Ordained to the priesthood on 10 June 1922, he finished his studies in 1925. While doing

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work in

, Quiroga was also a professor and spiritual advisor at the Ourense seminary from 1925 to 1942. In 1942, he was named lectoral canon of the cathedral chapter of Valladolid, where he also did pastoral and seminary work until 1945. On 24 November 1945 Quiroga was appointed

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. He received his episcopal consecration on 24 March 1946 from Archbishop Antonio García y García, assisted by Bishops Francisco Blanco Nájera and José Soutop Vizoso, in the shrine of the

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. Quiroga was advanced to Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela on 4 June 1949, and later Cardinal Priest of '' Sant'Agostino'' by Pius XII in the consistory of 12 January 1953. He served as

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to the

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in Manila, Philippines, during December 1954, and was one of the

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in the

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. From 1962 to 1965, Quiroga attended the Second Vatican Council, during the course of which he participated in the conclave of 1963 that selected Pope Paul VI. The Cardinal was the first President of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, serving from 1966 to 1969. Quiroga died in Madrid, at age 71. He is buried in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela.

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