Enrique Casanovas Y Astorza

Place: Valencia

Born: 1850

Death: 1913

Biography:

Enrique Casanova, also known as Enrique Casanovas Y Astorza, was a Spanish artist born in Valencia in 1850. He was educated at the diocesan seminary of Valencia and left his studies to get married. He worked as a lawyer in Valencia and when his wife died in 1885, he returned to the seminary. He was ordained in 1886 in Valencia and worked in the Diocese of Almeria from 1886 until 1901. In 1901, he was transferred to the Archdiocese of Toledo where he served until 1914 as an archdeacon and canon of the cathedral chapter and its vicar general. He was created Protonotary apostolic on 22 March 1903. He was an Auditor of Sacred Rota of Madrid in 1904 and was Rector of the University of Madrid. He was appointed as Bishop of Barcelona on 28 March 1914, when Barcelona was not yet an archdiocese. He was named Archbishop of Valencia on 22 April 1920. He was transferred to the see of Toledo on 14 December 1922 at the same time he was named a cardinal. He died on 25 August 1927 and was buried at the metropolitan cathedral of Toledo.