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José Antonio Álvarez, Auxiliary Bishop of Madrid, Died at the Age of 50: "He Was a Pastor Dedicated to the Service"

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Pope Francis appointed José Antonio Álvarez Sánchez auxiliary bishop of Madrid on April 23, 2024 and received the episcopal consecration on July 6, 2024. More information: Polémica en la Carlos III for a talk by Olona about the "Bukele model": "It is the first after the murder of Charlie Kirk"
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Monsignor José Antonio Álvarez, who died this Wednesday at the age of 50, was buried this afternoon in the crypt of the Cathedral of...

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“God’s plans are his own and it is up to us to abide by them in hope, in peace, but I am moved.” This was shown in ‘Ecclesia a day’ the bishop emeritus of Segovia, César Franco, after meeting José Antonio Álvarez’s death on Wednesday, October 1, for a fulminating heart attack. Franco knew well the auxiliary bishop of Madrid, since he was his personal secretary at the stage when the bishop emeritus assumed the same position, before he was sent to…

The auxiliary bishop of Madrid, José Antonio Álvarez Sánchez, died early this Wednesday at the age of 50 because of a heart attack, according to the Archdiocese of Madrid in a statement on his website. The archbishop and his auxiliary bishops, the emeritus archbishops, together with every diocesan community, have expressed their “pain for the loss of a pastor dedicated to the service of the Gospel” and have transferred their closeness to the fam…

Pope Francis appointed José Antonio Álvarez Sánchez auxiliary bishop of Madrid on April 23, 2024 and received the episcopal consecration on July 6, 2024. More information: Polémica en la Carlos III for a talk by Olona about the "Bukele model": "It is the first after the murder of Charlie Kirk"

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Who was José Antonio Álvarez? Stage as rector of the seminary and auxiliary bishop At first thing in the morning sources of the archbishopric Madrid have confirmed to Confidencial Religion the sudden death of the one who was rector of the seminary of Madrid. Monsignor Álvarez Sánchez has died of a heart attack being still very young. Who has given the voice of alarm has been the bishop Vicente Martín Ibáñez who found him already dead at 6 this m…

The news Die José Antonio Álvarez: the auxiliary bishop of Madrid, 50 years old, suffered a heart attack was first published in Last Minute Religious News

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