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The current Archbishop of Barcelona is Juan José Omella Omella, appointed by Pope Francis on 6 November 2015. Province. The ecclesiastical province of Barcelona includes the Metropolitan's own archbishopric and the following suffragan sees : Roman Catholic Diocese of Sant Feliu de Llobregat. Roman Catholic Diocese of Terrassa. Statistics.
Aug 22, 2024 · As archbishop of the Catalan capital, Cardinal Omella offered to act as a mediator between the independence leader Carles Puigdemont and the government of Spain's former Prime Minister...
Luís Cardinal Martínez Sistach is the current Archbishop of Barcelona and Cardinal-Priest of S. Sebastiano alle Catecombe. He was born on April 29,1937 in Barcelona, Spain and ordained to...
- Setting The Scene
- War and Plague
- Ignatius’ Gift to The World
Pope Francis began his letter by vividly evoking the event being commemorated. Five hundred years ago today, he wrote, “Our protagonist, having served the king and his convictions to the point of shedding his blood, was wounded in body and spirit, had stripped himself of everything, and was determined to follow Christ in poverty and humility.” “It ...
St Ignatius lived, like us, in a time of war and plague, Pope Francis said, and it is significant that God used both of these to call Ignatius to conversion. “It was the war that brought him out of the siege of Pamplona and was the trigger for his conversion, and the plague that prevented him from reaching Barcelona and kept him in the cave of Manr...
St Ignatius responded to this call, Pope Francis said. Importantly, however, “he did not keep this grace to himself, but saw it from the beginning as a gift to others, as a way, as a method.” The Pope compared this technique – St Ignatius’ famed Spiritual Exercises – to “other itineraries of perfection, such as the twelve degrees of humility of Sai...
Mar 7, 2023 · New members include Cardinal Juan José Omella Omella, archbishop of Barcelona, Spain; Cardinal Gérald C. Lacroix, archbishop of Quebec; Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, archbishop of Luxembourg and Cardinal Sérgio da Rocha, archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil.
On 26 December he became archbishop of Barcelona. He served as member of the Episcopal commission for social pastoral ministry until 1996, and as president from 2002 to 2008, and again from 2014 to 2017.
Archbishop of Barcelona says Church faces ‘discriminatory’ treatment on anti-COVID measures Cardinal Juan José Omella to take ‘legal action’ against Catalan authorities, decries ‘double ...
