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Church in Spain
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Analysis

Who’s leading the transformation of the Spanish episcopacy?

Who are these men, and what explains their abrupt rise in the Spanish Church?

Edgar Beltrán
Sep 21, 2024
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Historically, the Spanish episcopate has been among the most conservative in Europe. Spain has also been a vocational powerhouse, being the country with the most missionaries in the world.

But with increasing secularization, the reality of the Church in Spain has changed. And Pope Francis appears to believe these changes call for a new direction in Churc…

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