José Cerviño Cerviño, (August 21, 1920 – April 18, 2012) was a Spanish
prelate
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of the
Roman Catholic Church
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Cerviño was born in Aldán, Spain, and was ordained a priest on April 6, 1946, from the
Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela
The Metropolitan Archdiocese of (Santiago de) Compostela ( la, Archidioecesis Compostellana), is the senior of the five districts in which the Catholic Church divides Galicia in North-western Spain.Diocese of Tui-Vigo where he would serve until his retirement on June 7, 1996.