Antonio García-Moreno, priest and university professor, dies
Born in Almendralejo (Badajoz), he worked for more than thirty years at professor and pastoral work in the School of Theology.
The priest and Professor Emeritus of the School of Theology of the University of Navarra, Antonio García-Morenodied on Monday, March 23 in Pamplona at the age of 87. He was born in Almendralejo, Badajoz, on September 10, 1933. He was Associate Professor of New Testament Exegesis at School since 1971.
He graduated in Civil Law from the University of Seville in 1957 and in Sacred Scriptures from the Pontifical Biblical high school in Rome in 1964. Subsequently, in 1970, he obtained a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Gregorian University in Rome and the renuntiatus doctor at Sacred Theology in 1978.
Author of eight books and co-author of another twenty, including the Sagrada Biblia de la Universidad de Navarra and the Gran Enciclopedia Rialp, he also published numerous articles on knowledge dissemination, many of them in the magazine Christian Worldand in newspapers Today (Badajoz) and ABC (Seville).
He was incardinated in the Archdiocese of Merida Badajoz, where he was ordained priest in March 1961. He was prefect of Humanities in the Metropolitan seminar of Merida Badajoz during the academic year 1964-65, prefect of Theology in the same center between 1965 and 1968 and lectoral canon of the Holy Church Cathedral in 1978.
For Professor Santiago Ausín, colleague of Professor García-Moreno in the department of Sacred Scripture of the School of Theology, he was a priest who to his gifts of researcher and university scholar "has united his personal qualities of sobriety and simplicity". He recalls that "he was a great conversationalist and from his attention we always learned something. He was a zealous priest and concerned about the events of society. He was a man of the Church".
In addition, he emphasizes the pastoral work and professor he did until his retirement. "It can be said that all the priests of Badajoz have been his students and have received, along with biblical knowledge, the simple and profound testimony of a priest of integrity". He also points out the great issue of talks of training that he directed that "showed his priestly energy".
- Semblanza written by Professor Juan Chapa and published in Diario de Navarra.
- Semblanza written by Santiago Ausín, Professor Emeritus of the School de Teología