José Manuel Estepa Llaurens (1 January 1926 – 21 July 2019) was a Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church who was Military Archbishop of Spain from 1983 to 2003. He was made a

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in 2010.

Biography

Born in

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, Spain, on 1 January 1926. He studied philosophy at the

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and theology at the

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in Rome, where he obtained a doctorate in

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. He obtained a licentiate in pastoral

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at the Institut Catholique, Paris, in 1956. He was

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on 27 June 1954. He was chaplain of Colegio Mayor Universitario Guadalupe of Madrid, from 1956 until 1960. He served as professor at the Hispanicamerican Theological Seminary of Madrid from 1956 to 1964 and director of the Department of Pastoral of Obra de Cooperación Sacerdotal Hispanoamericana (OCSHA) from 1957 to 1961. He served as the assessore to the presidency of the Episcopal Council of Latin America (CELAM) from 1958 to 1967. He also collaborated with the Catholic Action. From 1965 until 1971, he was national director of catechesis of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, as well as general delegate of the Episcopal Commission for Education and consultor of the Congregation for the Clergy, 1971.

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appointed him an auxiliary bishop of

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and

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of Tisili on 5 September 1972. He was

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a bishop on 15 October 1972; his principal

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was Cardinal

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, Archbishop of

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appointed him the

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of the

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and

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of Velebusdus on 30 July 1983. His titular see was changed to Titular Archbishop of Italica on 18 November 1989, but he resigned it on 7 March 1998. He retired as Military Archbishop of Spain on 30 October 2003. In the 1980s and 90s he was a member of the Commission of six bishops that edited the ''

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'' and oversaw the production of its Spanish translation.

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made him

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on 20 November 2010 at the age of 84. He died on 21 July 2019 at the age of 93.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Estepa Llaurens, Jose Manuel 1926 births 2019 deaths Roman Catholic titular archbishops 21st-century Spanish cardinals Pontifical Gregorian University alumni Institut Catholique de Paris alumni Cardinals created by Pope Benedict XVI Pontifical University of Salamanca alumni People from Andújar