Francisco Cerro Chaves (born 18 October 1957) is a Spanish prelate, theologian, and philosopher of the

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who has been Metropolitan Archbishop of Toledo since February 2020. He has been a bishop since 2007 and was Bishop of Coria-Caceres from 2007 to 2019.

Biography

He was born on 18 October 1957 in Malpartida di Cáceres. He studied philosophy there and then earned his bachelor's degree in theology at the seminary of Toledo. At the

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he earned his licentiate and then his doctorate in spiritual theology in 1997. He was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Toledo on 12 July 1981. He became vicar of San Nicolás parish that year and was then assistant for youth from 1982 to 1989, assistant at Santa Teresa parish in 1986–1987, and director of the diocesan house for spiritual exercises from 1986 to 1989. In 1989 he transferred to Valladolid, where he was incardinated in 1992. There he was director of the Center for Formation and Spirituality of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and chaplain of the National Sanctuary of the Great Promise from 1989 to 2007. On the 21 June 2007,

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named him bishop of Coria-Cáceres. He received his episcopal consecration on 12 September. In the Spanish Bishops Conference, he was a member of the commission for consecrated life from 2007 to 2017 and the commission for the laity from 2008 to 2011. He became a member in 2017 of the commissions for the missions, interchurch cooperation, and the clergy.

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appointed him Metropolitan Archbishop of Toledo on 27 December 2019.

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