Ángel Riesco Carbajo, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ángel Riesco Carbajo

roman-catholic bishop

Date of Birth: 09-Jul-1902

Date of Death: 02-Jul-1972

Profession: Catholic priest

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Ángel Riesco Carbajo

  • Ángel Riesco Carbajo (9 July 1902 - 2 July 1972) was a Spanish Roman Catholic prelate who served as a bishop in the Pamplona archdiocese and was the founder of the Misioneras Apostólicas de la Caridad.
  • Riesco spent some time in Argentina as an emigrant before he returned to his homeland for a scholarship that saw his ecclesial studies spent in Madrid and Santander.
  • He served as a parish priest following his ordination and in 1957 in Astorga founded a religious congregation dedicated to women.
  • Months later he became a bishop but retired a decade later due to poor health that he later died from not long after.Riesco's beatification process launched in 1994 and he became titled as a Servant of God.
  • His cause advanced in mid-2019 after Pope Francis named him Venerable upon confirming that the late bishop had practiced heroic virtue throughout his life.

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