Damián Iguacén Borau (12 February 1916 – 24 November 2020) was a Spanish bishop of the
Roman Catholic Church
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.
Life
Iguacén Borau was born in
Fuencalderas,
Spain
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and ordained a priest on 7 June 1941. He was consecrated bishop of the
Barbastro Diocese on 11 October 1970. Subsequently, he was transferred to the
Diocese of Teruel and Albarracín on 23 September 1974 and then to the tenth bishop of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of San Cristóbal de La Laguna
The Diocese of San Cristóbal de La Laguna (), also called Diocese of Tenerife or Diocese Nivariense, is a diocese located in the city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna in the Canary Islands and a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the Roman ...
on 14 August 1984 where he remained until his retirement on 12 June 1991.
He
turned 100 in February 2016. At the age of 104 years, he was the oldest living Catholic bishop until his death. Iguacén Borau died on 24 November 2020, in
Huesca
Huesca (; ) is a city in north-eastern Spain, within the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Aragon. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Aragon between 1096 and 1118. It is also the capital of the Spanish Huesca (province), ...
, Spain at the age of 104.
Publications
* ''Una visita a la catacumba zaragozana'', Impr. Folios 1954
* ''Preces Laurentinas'', 1964
* ''La Basílica de S. Lorenze de Huesca'', 1969
* ''La Diócesis de Barbastro'', Imp.Tipo-Linea, Zaragoza 1971, Depósito Legal Z-442-71
* ''San Ramón del Monte, Obispo de Barbastro'', Talleres Editoriales "El Noticiero", Zaragoza 1972, Depósito Legal Z-4-72
* ''El patrimonio cultural de la Iglesia en España'', La Editorial Católica 1982,
* ''La Iglesia y Su Patrimonio Cultural'', Edice Madrid 1984,
* ''La ruta "Virgen de Candelaria": tradición, mensaje, compromiso : exhortación pastoral'', Obispado de Tenerife 1990
* ''Diccionario del patrimonio cultural de la iglesia'', Encuentro Ediciones Madrid 1991,
* ''El arte en la liturgia'' (Band 47 von Cuadernos Phase), Centre de Pastoral Litúrgica 1993,
* ''Diálogos con Santa María, madre de Dios'', Producciones Gráficas 1994,
* ''El Venerable Francisco Ferrer y los Operarios Misionistas: un grano de trigo caído en tierra'', D. Iguacén 1997,
* ''Incondicionalidad'' (Band 105 von Vida y misión), Edibesa 2004,
See also
*
Diocese of Tenerife
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
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*
Diocese of Teruel and Albarracín
*
Barbastro Diocese
References
External links
Personal filein Catholic Hierarchy
Ternerife site
1916 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain
Spanish men centenarians
20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Spain
Roman Catholic bishops of San Cristóbal de La Laguna
20th-century Spanish Roman Catholic priests
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