Gregorio Maria Cardinal Aguirre y Garcia

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Styles of Gregorio Maria Cardinal Aguirre y Garcia
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Toledo

His Most Reverend Eminence Gregorio Maria Cardinal Aguirre y Garcia (12 March 1835 - 10 October 1913) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and was former Archbishop of Toledo and Primate of Spain.

Gregorio Maria Aguirre y Garcia was born in Pola de Gordón, Spain. He was educated at the Seminary of Leon, and the Colegio de Pastrana.

[edit] Priesthood

He was ordained and served as a daculty member and rector of several theological colleges of his order in Spain and the Philippines. He was lector of philosophy from 1860 until 1863; and theology from 1863 to 1879. He was rector of the schools of Consuegra, 1867-1870; Pastrana, 1870-1876; Almagro, 1878; and Puebla de Montalbán, 1881.

[edit] Episcopate

He was appointed as bishop of Lugo on 27 March 1885 by Pope Leo XIII. He served as Senator of the Spanish kingdom from 1893 until 1895, and again from 1902 until his death. He was promoted to metropolitan see of Burgos on 21 May 1894.

[edit] Cardinalate

He was created Cardinal-Priest of S. Giovanni a Porta Latina in the consistory of 15 April 1907 by Pope Pius X. He was transferred to primatial see of Toledo on 29 April 1909. He died in 1913.