Lluis Clavell Ortiz-Repiso (born 13 October 1941)
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Career

Although born in

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, he spent all his childhood in

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where his father was the director of "El Forn del Vidre" (a Philips lamp factory). He was ordained priest on 7 August 1966, along with 23 other members of the

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, celebrating his first Mass on 16 August 1966 in the Church of the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria de Pedralbes.hemeroteca.lavanguardia 16-ago-1966
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. Graduated in Philosophy at the

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he became an alumnus of the

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where he earned a

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. Clavell is Professor of Metaphysics at the

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), of which he was rector. In the present, he is a member of the

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as President of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Work

* ''György Lukács. Historia y conciencia de clase y estética'', Madrid, Magisterio Español, 1975, 204 pp. * ''Metafísica'', Pamplona, EUNSA, 1984, 247 pp. * ''Metafisica e libertà'', Roma, Armando, 1996, 207 pp. * ''Metaphysics'', Manila, Sinag-Tala, 1991, XII, 249 pp. * ''El nombre propio de Dios según Santo Tomás de Aquino'', Pamplona, EUNSA, 1980, 201 pp. * ''Razón y fe en la universidad: ¿oposición o colaboración?'', Pamplona, Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra, 2011, 10 pp. * Carlos Cardona, ''Olvido y memoria del ser'', edición de Ignacio Guiu y Lluís Clavell, Pamplona, EUNSA, 1997, 517 pp.

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Catholic Hierarchy: Bishop Lluis Clavell Ortiz-Repiso
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