Santiago García Aracil

Santiago García Aracil (28 May 1940 – 28 December 2018) was a Spanish Roman Catholic archbishop.[1]

This article uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is García and the second or maternal family name is Aracil.

Biography

García Aracil was born in Valencia, Spain and was ordained to the priesthood in 1963. He served as titular bishop of Croæ and auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Valencia, Spain, from 1984 to 1988. He then served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jaén, Spain, from 1988 to 2004. Finally he served as archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mérida-Badajoz, Spain, from 2004 to 2015, when he resigned for reasons of age.[2][3]

Notes

1. Archbishop Santiago García Aracil
2. Santiago Garcia Aracil
3. Fallece de manera repentina el arzobispo emérito de Mérida-Badajoz (in Spanish)