Cardinal Carlos Amigo, Archbishop Emeritus of Seville, dies


the cardinal Charles Friend, Archbishop Emeritus of Seville, died this morning in Guadalajara at the age of 87, after being surgically operated on the lungs last Monday, as reported this Wednesday by the Spanish Episcopal Conference (EEC).

The Cardinal had submitted prior to hip surgery after a fall suffered in the mass that was celebrated in Madrid’s Almudena Cathedral in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the ordination of Cardinal Carlos Osoro, Archbishop of Madrid.

Amigo has died this Wednesday at the University Hospital of Guadalajara, where he remained admitted after the operation to which he underwent last Monday.

The Archbishop of Seville, José Ángel Saiz Meneses, had traveled this morning to Guadalajara to visit him.

Carlos Amigo was Appointed Archbishop of Seville in 1982 and since 2009 he has been Archbishop Emeritus of this city.

Born in Medina de Rioseco (Valladolid), on August 23, 1934, he began studying Medicine at the Faculty of Valladolid, but soon abandoned them to enter the novitiate of the Order of Franciscan Friars Minor.

After being ordained a priest, he studied Philosophy in Rome and, once assigned to Madrid, he combined Psychology studies at the Central University with teaching in special education centers.

In 1970 he was named Provincial of the Franciscan Province of Santiago and in 1973 Archbishop of Tangier.

In February 1976, in Tripoli (Libya), Amigo participated as a member of the Holy See delegation in the Islamo-Christian Dialogue Seminar, sponsored by the Pontifical Secretariat for Non-Christians and the Libyan Arab Republic.

A year later he attended the Synod of Bishops as delegate of the bishops of the Episcopal Conference of North Africa.

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In October 1983 he participated in the Synod of Bishops as a member designated by the Pope and in 1984 he was appointed president of the Episcopal Commission for the V Centenary of the Evangelization of America.

He is a member of the Academies of Good Letters, Medicine and Fine Arts of Seville and has participated in numerous congresses and study weeks.


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