Manuel Arce y Ochotorena

Manuel Arce y Ochotorena (August 18, 1879 – September 16, 1948) was a Spanish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Tarragona from 1944 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1946 by Pope Pius XII.
==Biography==
Born in Ororbia, Pamplona, Manuel Arce y Ochotorena attended the seminaries in Pamplona and Zaragoza before going to Rome to study at the Pontifical Gregorian University and the Angelicum. He was ordained to the priesthood on July 17, 1904, and then taught at Pamplona's seminary. Also serving as vicar capitular and vicar general of Pamplona, Ochotorena was made an Apostolic Protonotary on December 3, 1926.
On February 5, 1929, he was appointed Bishop of Zamora by Pope Pius XI. He received his episcopal consecration on the following June 16 from Archbishop Federico Tedeschini, with Bishops Tomás Muñiz Pablos and Mateo Múgica y Urrestarazu serving as co-consecrators, in the Cathedral of Pamplona.
Ochotorena was later made Bishop of Oviedo on January 22, 1938, and Archbishop of Tarragona on March 29, 1944. Pope Pius XII created him Cardinal Priest of Ss. Vitale, Valeria, Gervasio e Protasio in the consistory of February 18, 1946.
The Cardinal died in Tarragona, at age 69. He is buried in the metropolitan cathedral of that same city.
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