Jacinto María Cervera y Cervera (

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, 12 October 1827 -

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, 14 November 1897) was a

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ecclesiastic, third Bishop of the

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and subsequently Bishop of the

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Biography

Born in Pedralba in the

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on 12 October 1827, he was ordained a priest in 1850. He was appointed auxiliary bishop of

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on 16 December 1880, with the titular ''seat of Hypsus''. He was consecrated a bishop on 6 February 1881. The following year, on 27 March 1882, he was appointed bishop of San Cristóbal de La Laguna (or Tenerife). He entered the diocese on 16 July 1882 and officiated as Pontifical in the Cathedral of San Cristóbal de La Laguna. He was the third bishop of Tenerife. He ordained five diocesan priests and years later presented the resignation that was accepted on 21 July 1885 and retired to the

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. Finally, the year of retiring was designated 10 June 1886 like bishop of Mallorca and

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, position that occupied until his death on 14 November 1897, at the age of 70 years.

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