Ildefonso Joaquín Infante y Macías (

Moguer Moguer is a municipality and small city located in the province of Huelva, Andalusia, Spain. According to the 2023 census, it has a population of 22,956. Its surface area is , and its population density is . The present site of Moguer had been ho ...

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, 31 May 1813 - Moguer, Huelva, 2 July 1888) was a

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ecclesiastic, second 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 ...

Episcopate

On 18 June 1876 he was consecrated bishop in the diocese of Cadiz, a position he held in

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until 20 May 1877 that happened to be of the Diocese of San Cristóbal de La Laguna or Tenerife. There he excelled in his position, establishing free schools for poor children, missions to evangelize the peoples, and moral and liturgical conferences to stimulate the clergy. He retired from the position of bishop of Tenerife in January 1882. He died on 2 July 1888 in Moguer, and was buried in the Hermitage of Our Lady of Montemayor.

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