Joaquín Anselmo María Albareda y Ramoneda,
O.S.B.
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(16 February 1892 – 19 July 1966) was a Spanish
Cardinal
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of the
Roman Catholic Church who served as
Prefect of the
Vatican Library from 1936 to 1962, and was elevated to the
cardinalate in 1962.
Biography
Joaquín Albareda y Ramoneda was born in
Barcelona to Vicente Albareda and his wife María Ramoneda. Entering the
Order of Saint Benedict at
Santa María de Montserrat in 1904, he
took the name Anselmo María upon his
profession on 4 November 1908.
Ordained to the
priesthood on 7 July 1915, Albareda then remained as a member of the Montserrat community until 1921. He furthered his studies from 1921 to 1923, attending the
Athenaeum of St. Anselm in
Rome and the
Faculty
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of
Palaeography and
Archives in
Freiburg.
Returning to the Montserrat monastery, he served as its
archivist from 1923 to 1936.
On 19 June 1936 Albareda was appointed
Prefect of the
Vatican Library by
Pope Pius XI
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. He was made
Titular Abbot of
Santa Maria de Ripoll on 5 May 1950, receiving the traditional abbatial
blessing from Cardinal
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Tisserant on 26 August 1951.
Pope John XXIII created Albareda
Cardinal Deacon of ''
S. Apollinare alle Terme Neroniane-Alessandrine
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'' in the
consistory of 19 March 1962, on which date Albareda resigned as Prefect.
The Cardinal was named by Pope John as
Titular Archbishop of Gypsaria on 5 April 1962. He received his
episcopal consecration on the following 19 April from Pope John, with Cardinals
Giuseppe Pizzardo and
Benedetto Aloisi Masella serving as
co-consecrators
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, in the
Lateran Basilica. Albareda stepped down as Titular Archbishop the next day, 20 April. From 1962 to 1965, he attended the
Second Vatican Council, during the course of which he was one of the
cardinal electors
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who participated in the
1963 papal conclave
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that elected
Pope Paul VI.
The Cardinal died in his native Barcelona, at age 74. He is buried at the Montserrat monastery.
See also
*
List of archivists
References
External links
Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church
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1892 births
1966 deaths
Participants in the Second Vatican Council
People from Barcelona
Spanish archivists
20th-century Spanish cardinals
Cardinals created by Pope John XXIII
Spanish Benedictines