José Cerviño Cerviño, (August 21, 1920 – April 18, 2012) was a Spanish
prelate
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of the
Roman Catholic Church
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.
Cerviño was born in Aldán, Spain, and was ordained a priest on April 6, 1946, from the
Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela
The Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela () is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Spain. It is the most senior of the five districts into which the church divides the region of Galicia.Diocese of Tui-Vigo where he would serve until his retirement on June 7, 1996.