Antonio Añoveros Ataún, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Spanish bishop
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Place of Birth: Pamplona, Navarre, Spain
About Antonio Añoveros Ataún
- Antonio Añoveros Ataún (1909 - 1987) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest.
- He is known mostly as a protagonist of the so-called "Añoveros case", a 1974 episode which marked the gravest crisis in relations between Francoist Spain and the Church.
- Though during the Civil War he joined Carlists, he is recognized chiefly as one of the most liberal members of the Spanish hierarchy during the late Francoism; he is appreciated especially in the Basque realm.
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