Arturo Tabera Araoz

Arturo Tabera Araoz CMF (29 October 1903 – 13 June 1975) was a Spanish cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes.


Arturo Tabera Araoz

Prefect of the Congregation for the Religious and Secular Institutes
ChurchRoman Catholic Church
Appointed13 September 1973
Term ended13 June 1975
PredecessorIldebrando Antoniutti
SuccessorEduardo Francisco Pironio
Other post(s)Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Montorio (1969-75)
Orders
Ordination22 December 1928
by Basilio Pompili
Consecration5 May 1946
by Leopoldo Eijo y Garay
Created cardinal28 April 1969
by Pope Paul VI
RankCardinal-Priest
Personal details
Born
Arturo Tabera Araoz

29 October 1903
Died13 June 1975(1975-06-13) (aged 71)
Clinic Pio XI, Rome, Italy
BuriedSacro Cuore di Maria
ParentsObdulio Tabera
Emilia Araoz
Previous post(s)
Alma materPontifical Roman Athenaeum S. Apollinare
MottoDonec formetur Christus in vobis
Styles of
Arturo Tabera Araoz
Reference styleHis Eminence
Spoken styleYour Eminence
Informal styleCardinal
SeeLirbe (titular see)

Early years

Arturo Tabera Araoz was born in Barco, near Ávila, Spain. He joined the Congregation of Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in May 1915. He was educated at the Claretian Seminary, and the Pontifical Roman Athenaeum "S. Apollinare" in Rome where he earned a doctorate in canon law.

Priesthood

He was ordained on 22 December 1928. He was from 1930 until 1946 a faculty member of the Theological School of Zafra, Badajoz; director of the journal Ilustración del Clero, Madrid; staff member of the journal Commemoratium pro religiosis, Rome; secretary of the prefecture of studies of his congregation; founder of the journal Vida religiosa, Rome; vice-postulator of the cause of beatification of Marcelo Spinola y Maestre, Archbishop of Seville.

Episcopate

Pope Pius XII appointed him titular bishop of Lirbe and apostolic administrator of Barbastro, Spain, on 16 February 1946. He was transferred to the diocese of Albacete on 13 May 1950. He attended the Second Vatican Council in Rome. He was promoted to the metropolitan see of Pamplona by Pope Paul VI on 23 July 1968.

Cardinalate

He was made Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Montorio in the consistory of 28 April 1969 by Pope Paul. He was appointed Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship on 20 February 1971. Pope Paul appointed him prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes on 8 September 1973.

He died in 1975 in Rome.

References

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