The Military Archbishopric of Spain ( es, Arzobispado Castrense de España) is a military ordinariate of the Roman Catholic Church. Immediately subject to the Holy See, it provides

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to Roman Catholics serving in the

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and their families. Catedral Castrense Madrid

History

The first military vicariate-general,

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, was appointed in 1705, but the position lapsed in

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in 1930. Twenty years later, a military vicariate was re-established on 5 August 1950, and a few months later a military vicar was appointed on 12 December 1950. It was elevated to a military ordinariate on 21 July 1986 and is headed by an

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. The Episcopal seat is located at the Cathedral of the Armed Forces (''Catedral de las Fuerzas Armadas'') in Madrid, Spain.

Office holders

Military bishops

Jaime Cardona y Tur Jaime is a common Spanish and Portuguese male given name for Jacob (name), James (name), Jamie, or Jacques. In Occitania Jacobus became ''Jacome'' and later ''Jacme''. In east Spain, ''Jacme'' became ''Jaime'', in Aragon it became ''Chaime'', and i ...

(appointed 11 July 1892 – died 6 January 1923) *

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(appointed 7 January 1929 – translated to the Patriarchate of the West Indies 30 June 1930)

Military vicars

Luis Alonso Muñoyerro Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic ...

(appointed 12 December 1950 – died 23 September 1968) *

José López Ortiz José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacul ...

, O.S.A. (appointed 18 February 1969 – retired 28 May 1977) * Emilio Benavent Escuín (appointed 25 May 1977 – resigned 27 October 1982) * José Manuel Estepa Llaurens (appointed 30 July 1983 – became Military

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21 July 1986)

Military ordinaries

* José Manuel Estepa Llaurens (appointed 21 July 1986 – retired 30 October 2003) * Francisco Pérez González (appointed 30 October 2003 – translated to the

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31 July 2007) * Juan del Río Martín (appointed 30 June 2008 – died 28 January 2021) * Juan Antonio Aznárez Cobo (appointed 15 November 2021)

Noncombatant status

:''See: Military chaplain#Non-combatant status''

Rank insignias

References

External links

Arzobispado Castrense de España
official website (in Spanish)

(Catholic-Hierarchy)

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