{{Short description|Spanish cardinal}} {{no footnotes|date=January 2013}} {{family name hatnote|[[Quiroga (surname)|Quiroga]]|[[Palacios (surname)|Palacios]]|lang=Spanish}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Cardinal | honorific_prefix = [[His Eminence]] | name = Fernando Quiroga Palacios | title = [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)|Cardinal]], [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela|Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela]] | church = [[Catholic Church]] | archdiocese = Santiago de Compostela | appointed = 4 June 1949 | term_end = 7 December 1971 | predecessor = Carmelo Ballester Nieto | successor = [[Ángel Suquía Goicoechea]] | other_post = [[Sant'Agostino, Rome|Cardinal-Priest of Sant'Agostino]] (1953-71) | ordination = 10 June 1922 | ordained_by = Florencio Cerviño González | consecration = 24 March 1946 | consecrated_by = Antonio García y García | cardinal = 12 January 1953 | created_cardinal_by = [[Pius XII]] | rank = [[Cardinal-Priest]] | birth_name = Fernando Quiroga Palacios | birth_date = 21 January 1900 | birth_place = San Pedro de Maceda, [[Melide, Spain|San Pedro de Maceda]], [[Restoration (Spain)|Spanish Kingdom]] |death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1971|12|07|1900|01|21}} |death_place = Hospital San Pedro, [[Madrid]], [[Spain]] |buried = [[Santiago de Compostela Cathedral]] | parents = Francisco Quiroga Álvarez<br>Teresa Palacios Vázquez | previous_post = [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Mondoñedo-Ferrol|Bishop of Mondoñedo]] (1945-49)<br>Apostolic Administrator of Mondoñedo (1949-50)<br>[[Spanish Episcopal Conference|President of the Spanish Episcopal Conference]] (1966-69) | alma_mater = [[Pontifical Biblical Institute]] | motto = ''Omnia in caritate fiant'' | coat_of_arms = Coat of arms of Fernando Quiroga Palacios.svg }}
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'''Fernando Quiroga Palacios''' (21 January 1900 – 7 December 1971) was a Spanish [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|Cardinal]] of the [[Roman Catholic Church]] who served as [[Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela|Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela]] from 1949 until his death and was elevated to the [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinalate]] in 1953 by [[Pope Pius XII]].
==Biography== Fernando Quiroga Palacios was born in San Pedro de Maceda, near [[Maceda, Ourense|Maceda]], [[Ourense (province)|Ourense]], and studied at the [[seminary]] in Ourense, the [[Pontifical university|Pontifical University]] of [[Santiago de Compostela]], and the [[Pontifical Biblical Institute]] in [[Rome]]. [[Holy Orders|Ordained]] to the [[Priesthood (Catholic Church)|priesthood]] on 10 June 1922, he finished his studies in 1925. While doing [[Parish (Catholic Church)|pastoral]] work in [[Diocese of Ourense|Ourense]], Quiroga was also a [[professor]] and [[Spiritual direction|spiritual advisor]] at the Ourense seminary from 1925 to 1942. In 1942, he was named [[Reader (liturgy)|lector]]al [[Canon (priest)|canon]] of the [[cathedral]] [[Chapter (religion)|chapter]] of [[Valladolid]], where he also did pastoral and seminary work until 1945.
On 24 November 1945 Quiroga was appointed [[Diocese of Mondoñedo-Ferrol|Bishop of Mondoñedo]] by [[Pope Pius XII]]. He received his [[Bishop (Catholic Church)|episcopal consecration]] on 24 March 1946 from Archbishop Antonio García y García, assisted by Bishops Francisco Blanco Nájera and José Soutop Vizoso, in the [[shrine]] of the Gran Promesa del Sagrado Corazón. Quiroga was advanced to [[Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela|Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela]] on 4 June 1949, and later [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|Cardinal Priest]] of ''[[Basilica of Sant'Agostino|Sant'Agostino]]'' by Pius XII in the [[Papal consistory|consistory]] of 12 January 1953.
He served as [[papal legate]] to the [[Marian Congress]] in [[Manila|Manila, Philippines]], during December 1954, and was one of the [[Cardinal electors in Papal conclave, 1958|cardinal electors]] in the [[Papal conclave, 1958|1958 papal conclave]]. From 1962 to 1965, Quiroga attended the [[Second Vatican Council]], during the course of which he [[Cardinal electors in Papal conclave, 1963|participated]] in the [[Papal conclave, 1963|conclave of 1963]] that selected [[Pope Paul VI]]. The Cardinal was the first [[President (corporate title)|President]] of the [[Spain|Spanish]] [[Episcopal Conference]], serving from 1966 to 1969.
Quiroga died in [[Madrid]], at age 71. He is buried in the [[Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela]].
==External links== *[https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios-q.htm#Quiroga Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church] *[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bquip.html Catholic-Hierarchy]
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