Ángel Herrera Oria

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Herrera and the second or maternal family name is Oria.

Ángel Herrera Oria (19 November 1886 – 28 July 1968) was a Spanish journalist and Roman Catholic politician and later a cardinal. He established the Instituto Social León XIII (later renamed Fundación Pablo VI) to promote the social doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church and named it in honor of Pope Paul VI who elevated him to the rank of cardinal in 1965.

His Eminence Ángel Herrera Oria Servant of God
Bishop Emeritus of Málaga
Church	Roman Catholic Church
Archdiocese	Granada
Diocese	Málaga
See	Málaga
Installed	12 October 1947
Term ended	19 August 1966
Predecessor	Balbino Santos y Olivera
Successor	Emilio Benavent Escuín
Other post(s)	Cardinal-Priest of Sacro Cuore di Maria (1965-1968)
Previous post(s)	President of the Central Board of Spanish Catholic Action (1933-1936) Coadjutor of Santa Lucia (1943-1947)
Orders
Ordination	28 July 1940
Consecration	30 June 1947 by Gaetano Cicognani
Created cardinal	22 February 1965 by Pope Paul VI
Rank	Cardinal-Priest
Personal details
Born	Ángel Herrera Oria (1886-12-19)19 December 1886 Santander, Cantabria, Spain
Died	28 July 1968(1968-07-28) (aged 81) Madrid, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Alma mater	University of Salamanca University of Deusto Complutense University of Madrid
Motto	Orationi et ministerio Verbi ("Prayer and the ministry of the Word")

Styles of Ángel Herrera Oria
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Málaga (Emeritus)

Ordination history of Ángel Herrera Oria
History Priestly ordination Date 28 July 1940 Place Seminary of Saint Charles, Fribourg Episcopal consecration Principal consecrator Gaetano Cicognani (Titular Archbishop of Ancyra) Co-consecrators José María Eguino y Trecu (Santander) Juan Hervás y Benet (Titular Bishop of Alinda) Date 30 June 1947 Place Santa Lucía, Spain Cardinalate Elevated by Pope Paul VI Date 22 February 1965
Episcopal succession Bishops consecrated by Ángel Herrera Oria as principal consecrator Antonio Añoveros Ataún 12 October 1952

His cause of canonization has commenced and he is referred to as a Servant of God.

Life

Early life and education

Ángel Herrera Oria was born in Spain on 19 November 1886 as the thirteenth of fifteen children to José Herrera Ariosa and Asunción Oria; four brothers became Jesuit priests while another joined the missions in China.

He completed his secondary studies with the Jesuit Fathers in Valladolid and studied law at the University of Deusto; he also studied for a licentiate in law in 1905 at the University of Salamanca and also attended the University of Fribourg in Switzerland for ecclesiastical studies from 1936 until 1940.

Oria entered the State Lawyers Corps in 1908 and was later sent to the Delegation of the Treasury in Burgos where he remained for a year. He returned to Madrid and entered the Marian Congregation of los Luises, directed by Jesuit Father Ángel Ayala. On 3 December 1909, he was named as the president of the recently founded Asociación Católica Nacional de Jóvenes Propagandistas. He also served as the director of El Debate from 1 November 1911 to 1933. He was the founder of Editorial Católica, of El Debate School of Journalism, of Confederación Nacional Católica Agraria, and of Centro de Estudios Universitarios e Instituto Social Obrero. Oria also partook in the formation of Pax Romana as well as in the initial steps of the Summer University of Santander. He served as the president of the Central Board of Spanish Catholic Action for three years from 1933 to 1936.

He co-founded and presided over the Asociación Católica Nacional de Propagandistas (ACNdP) (Propagandists Catholic National Association) from 1908 to 1935, and the rightist party Acción Nacional (named after Acción Popular) (1931), presided over Spanish Catholic Action (1933-1935), and edited the pre-Civil War's most important Catholic newspaper, El Debate from 1911 to 1933.

He studied law at the Universities of Salamanca and Deusto, and received his doctorate at the University of Madrid in 1908. That year, he co-founded, with the Jesuit Ángel Ayala, the ACNdP. In November 1911, he purchased El Debate, a Catholic newspaper established a year before, and he made of it one of the most read newspapers in Spain. In 1912, the ACNdP established the Editorial Católica, a leading Catholic publishing house during 20th century Spain. In 1926 he founded the first journalism school in Spain, associated with El Debate.

When the Second Republic was proclaimed, he founded the political party Acción Nacional (later named Acción Popular, as the government banned the usage of term 'national' by any political party). In 1933, he was elected president of Spanish Catholic Action and left editorship of El Debate. That same year, the ACNdP founded the Centro de Estudios Universitarios (CEU).