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Ángel Herrera Oria (
Santander,
1886,
November 19 -
Madrid,
1968,
July 28) was a
Spanish journalist,
Catholic lay leader,
politician and later
priest,
bishop and
cardinal. He co-founded and presided (
1908-
1935) the
Asociación Católica Nacional de Propagandistas (ACNdP) (Propagandists Catholic National Association), and the rightist party Acción Nacional (named after
Acción Popular) (
1931), presided Spanish
Catholic Action (
1933-
1935), and edited (
1911-
1933) the pre-
Civil War most important Catholic newspaper,
El Debate.
He studied
Law at the
Universities of Salamanca and
Deusto, and hold his
doctorate at the
University of Madrid in
1908. That year, he co-founded, with the
jesuit Ángel Ayala, the ACNdP. On 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 government banned the usage of term 'national' by any political party), with very little political success. In
1933, he was elected president of Spanish
Catholic Action and left edition of
El Debate. That same year, the ACNdP founded the
Centro de Estudios Universitarios (CEU).
In
1936 he decided to become priest and began his ecclesiastical studies in the
University of Fribourg. He was ordained priest in
1940. He was assigned as coadjutor to a
parish in
Santander, where he founded several social initiatives. In
1944, he encouraged the establishment by the Editorial Católica of the prestigious
Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos (BAC). In
1947 he was appointed
Bishop of Málaga. He advocated a large number of apostolic and social initiatives in his
diocese and his
homilies were very often nationwide broadcasted. Spanish Catholic Action elected him as its national ecclesiastical counselor from
1949 to
1955. In
1951 he founded the Leo XIII Social Institute, later the Faculty of Arts of the
Pontifical University of Salamanca (Madrid campus), and between
1958 and
1967 he presided the Editorial Católica. He participated in the
Second Vatican Council and in
1965 he was appointed cardinal by
Paul VI. He retired as bishop of Malaga in
1966. In
1996, the process of his
canonization began and he was proclaimed
Servant of God.
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