Patriarchate of West India

The Patriarchate of Western India was formed by Pope Clement VII on May 11, 1524. Earlier, the Castilian king Fernando V turned to Pope Leo X with the request to form a separate church structure on American lands discovered by the Spaniards. Charles V and Pope Clement VII agreed that an honorary patriarchy would be founded without clergy and jurisdiction. The parties agreed that the Holy See had the right to appoint a certain Spanish bishop as patriarch only with the consent of the Spanish monarch. The patriarch of West India was ordered to live only in Europe. The first titular patriarch was the Bishop of Palencia and the Archbishop of Granada, Antonio de Rojas.

After the death of the Archbishop of Granada, Patriarch Ferdinand Nino de Guevara in 1552, the Patriarchate of Western India remained vacant until 1591, when the Archbishop of Mexico City, Pedro Moya de Contreras , who actually lived only in Spain, was appointed Patriarch. In 1602, King Philip III renounced full jurisdiction over the Patriarchate of Western India and the Patriarchate became titular.

In 1705, Patriarch Carlos de Borja Centellas was appointed Holy See General Vicar of the Spanish Army. In 1736, Pope Clement XII united for a seven-year term the Vicar General of the Spanish Army with the Patriarchate of Western India. In 1762, the final unification of these structures by decree of Pope Clement XIII .

In 1933, Patriarch Ramon Perez Rodriguez was appointed bishop of the diocese of Cadiz and Ceuta . The Republican Government of the Second Spanish Republic canceled the military ordinate of Spain and the Patriarchate remained vacant. During the Civil War in Spain, the military ordinate was re-established and Archbishop of Toledo Isidro Goma-i-Thomas became its ordinar. In 1940, Isidro Goma-i-Thomas died and in his place was appointed auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Toledo Gregorio Modrego, who in 1942 became bishop of Barcelona .

In 1946, Leopoldo Eijo-i-Garay was appointed Patriarch of Western India without the right to lead the general vicariousness of the Spanish army. After the death of Leopoldo, Eijo-i-Garay, the Patriarchate of West India is vacant.

• Patriarch Antonio Rojas Manrique ^[1] † (May 11, 1524 - June 27, 1527, to death);
• Patriarch Esteban Gabriel Merino ^[2] † (September 2, 1530 - July 28, 1535, to death);
• Patriarch Fernando Nino de Guevara ^[3] † (October 8, 1546 - September 16, 1552, to death);
• Patriarch Antonio de Fonseca, OSA † (menzionato nel 1554 ) ^[4]
• Patriarch Pedro Moya de Contreras † (January 15, 1591 - December 7, 1591, to death); ^[five]
• Patriarch Juan Guzman † (November 15, 1602 - 1605, to death);
• Patriarch Juan Bautista Acevedo Munoz ^[6] † (January 16, 1606 - June 8, 1608, to death);
• Patriarch Pedro Manso † (November 10, 1608 - 1609, to death);
• Patriarch Diego Guzmán de Aros ^[7] † (March 14, 1616 - September 15, 1625 - appointed Archbishop of Seville );
• Patriarch Andres Pacheco ^[8] † (October 6, 1625 - April 7, 1626, to death);
• Patriarch Alfonso Perez de Guzmán ^[7] † (May 17, 1627 - before December 22, 1670, until his death);
• Patriarch Antonio Manrique de Guzmán ^[7] † (December 22, 1670 - February 26, 1679, until death);
• Patriarch Antonio de Benavides y Basan ^[7] † (May 8, 1679 - January 22, 1691, to death);
• Cardinal Pedro Portocarrero i Guzman ^[7] † (November 12, 1691 - 1705, to death);
• Cardinal Carlos de Borja y Santellas † (October 3, 1708 - August 8, 1733, to death);
• Cardinal Alvaro Eugenio de Mendoza Caamagno y Sotomayor † (January 20, 1734 - January 23, 1761, to death);
• Cardinal Bonaventure de Córdoba Espinola de la Cerda † (April 6, 1761 - May 6, 1777, to death);
• Cardinal Francisco Javier Delgado Benegas † (March 30, 1778 - December 10, 1781, to death); ^[9]
• Patriarch Cayetano de Adsor y Pares † (February 25, 1782 - July 12, 1782, until death);
• Patriarch Manuel Ventura de Figueroa † (December 16, 1782 - April 3, 1783, to death);
• Cardinal Antonio Szentmenat y Castell † (June 25, 1784 - April 14, 1806, to death);
• Patriarch Ramon José de Arce Rebolyar y Uribarri † (August 26, 1806 - July 7, 1815, retired);
• Cardinal Francisco Antonio Sebrian y Valda (July 10, 1815 - February 8, 1820);
• Patriarch Antonio Allue-i-Sese † (January 8, 1821 - May 17, 1842, until death);
  • vacant (1842-1847);
• Patriarch Antonio Posada Rubin de Celis † (December 17, 1847 - November 22, 1851, to death);
• Patriarch Thomas Iglesias Barkones † (September 27, 1852 - May 9, 1874, until death);
  • vacant (1874-1875);
• Cardinal Francisco de Paula Benavides y Navarrete , OS † (July 5, 1875 - May 13, 1881 - appointed Archbishop of Zaragoza );
• Patriarch José Moreno-i-Mason † (November 18, 1881 - March 27, 1885 - appointed Archbishop of Granada );
• Cardinal Seferino González y Diaz Tunión , OP † (March 27, 1885 - January 15, 1886 - appointed Archbishop of Seville );
• Cardinal Miguel Paya-i-Rico † (June 7, 1886 - December 25, 1891, to death);
• Cardinal Antolin Monesquillo y Viso ^[10] † (April 11, 1892 - August 11, 1897, to death);
• Cardinal Blessed Chiariak Maria Sancha i Ervas † (March 24, 1898 - February 26, 1909, to death);
• Cardinal Gregorio Maria Aguirre y Garcia , OFM † (April 29, 1909 - October 10, 1913, to death);
• Cardinal Victoriano Gisasola i Menendez ^[11] † (January 1, 1914 - September 2, 1920, to death);
• Patriarch Jaime Cardona-i-Tour † (December 9, 1920 - January 6, 1923, to death);
• Patriarch Julian de Diego García Alcolea † (July 27, 1923 - October 8, 1925 - appointed Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela );
• Patriarch Francisco Muñoz Isquiredo † (December 14, 1925 - April 18, 1930, to death);
• Patriarch Ramon Perez-i-Rodriguez † (June 30, 1930 - January 28, 1937, until death);
  • vacant (1937-1946);
• Patriarch Leopoldo Eijo-i-Garay † (July 21, 1946 - July 31, 1963, to death);
  • vacant (since 1963).

• Annuario Pontificio , Vatican, 1940
• Konrad Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi , vol. 3 , p. 213; vol. 4 , p. 209; vol. 5 , p. 228; vol. 6 , pp. 243-244 (lat.)

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