Fernando Quiroga Palacios

Fernando Quiroga Palacios (21 January 1900 7 December 1971) was a Spanish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela from 1949 until his death and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1953 by Pope Pius XII.


Fernando Quiroga Palacios
Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela
ChurchRoman Catholic Church
ArchdioceseSantiago de Compostela
SeeSantiago de Compostela
Appointed4 June 1949
Term ended7 December 1971
PredecessorCarmelo Ballester Nieto
SuccessorÁngel Suquía Goicoechea
Other post(s)Cardinal-Priest of Sant'Agostino (1953-71)
Orders
Ordination10 June 1922
by Florencio Cerviño González
Consecration24 March 1946
by Antonio García y García
Created cardinal12 January 1953
by Pope Pius XII
RankCardinal-Priest
Personal details
Born
Fernando Quiroga Palacios

21 January 1900
San Pedro de Maceda, San Pedro de Maceda, Spanish Kingdom
Died7 December 1971(1971-12-07) (aged 71)
Hospital San Pedro, Madrid, Spain
BuriedSantiago de Compostela Cathedral
ParentsFrancisco Quiroga Álvarez
Teresa Palacios Vázquez
Previous post(s)Bishop of Mondoñedo (1945-49)
Apostolic Administrator of Mondoñedo (1949-50)
President of the Spanish Episcopal Conference (1966-69)
Alma materPontifical Biblical Institute
MottoOmnia in caritate fiant
Coat of armsFernando Quiroga Palacios's coat of arms
Styles of
Fernando Quiroga Palacios
Reference styleHis Eminence
Spoken styleYour Eminence
Informal styleCardinal
SeeSantiago de Compostela

Biography

Fernando Quiroga Palacios was born in San Pedro de Maceda, near Maceda, Ourense, and studied at the seminary in Ourense, the Pontifical University of Santiago de Compostela, and the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. Ordained to the priesthood on 10 June 1922, he finished his studies in 1925. While doing pastoral work in Ourense, Quiroga was also a professor and spiritual advisor at the Ourense seminary from 1925 to 1942. In 1942, he was named lectoral canon of the cathedral chapter of Valladolid, where he also did pastoral and seminary work until 1945.

On 24 November 1945 Quiroga was appointed Bishop of Mondoñedo by Pope Pius XII. He received his episcopal consecration on 24 March 1946 from Archbishop Antonio García y García, assisted by Bishops Francisco Blanco Nájera and José Soutop Vizoso, in the shrine of the Gran Promesa del Sagrado Corazón. Quiroga was advanced to Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela on 4 June 1949, and later Cardinal Priest of Sant'Agostino by Pius XII in the consistory of 12 January 1953.

He served as papal legate to the Marian Congress in Manila, Philippines, during December 1954, and was one of the cardinal electors in the 1958 papal conclave. From 1962 to 1965, Quiroga attended the Second Vatican Council, during the course of which he participated in the conclave of 1963 that selected Pope Paul VI. The Cardinal was the first President of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, serving from 1966 to 1969.

Quiroga died in Madrid, at age 71. He is buried in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela.

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