José Antonio Infantes Florido (born in
Almadén de la Plata
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Spain, 24 January 1920 - died
Gelves
Gelves is a city located in the province of Seville, in Andalusia, Spain. According to the 2006 census ( INE), the city has a population of 8,325 inhabitants. It lies on the west bank of the Guadalquivir river.
The city of Gelves is not to be con ...
, 6 November 2005) was a Spanish Roman Catholic bishop.
Priesthood
He studied in the seminary of Valencia and on 19 May 1951 he was ordained a priest.
Episcopal ministry
On 20 July 1967,
Pope Paul VI
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appointed him bishop of the
Diocese of Canarias, which covers the three islands of
Gran Canaria
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,
Lanzarote
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Covering , Lanzarote is the fourth-largest of the islands in the archipelago. With 163,230 inhabi ...
and
Fuertaventura in the Spanish
Canary Islands
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, he was consecrated on 21 September of that year with Cardinal
José Bueno y Monreal
José María Bueno y Monreal (11 September 1904 – 20 August 1987) was a Spanish cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Seville from 1957 to 1982, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1958.
Biography
Born in Zaragoza ...
, Archbishop of Seville, being the chief celebrant.
On 25 May 1978 he was appointed
Bishop of Córdoba
A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of Episcopal polity, authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance and administration of di ...
.
On 15 March 1996, having reach the obligatory retirement age,
Pope John Paul II
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In his you ...
accepted his resignation.
Death
He died in his home in Gelves on 6 November 2005 at the age of 85.
See also
*
Diocese of Canarias
*
Diocese of Córdoba
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associated ...
References
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Spanish Roman Catholic bishops
Bishops appointed by Pope Paul VI
1920 births
2005 deaths