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Pedro Apaolaza Ramírez, archbishop of Zaragoza

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Pedro Apaolaza Ramírez, archbishop of Zaragoza

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Pedro Apaolaza Ramírez was born in Moyuela on 13 July 1567 and trained at the University of Zaragoza, where he earned a doctorate in theology. Before reaching the archbishopric of Zaragoza in 1635, he held in succession the bishoprics of Barbastro, Albarracín and Teruel, and was also a deputy of the Kingdom of Aragon. As archbishop he endowed chairs at the University of Zaragoza and, in his home village, founded three chaplaincies and a teaching post in Humanities, as well as paying for the enlargement of one of the churches of Moyuela, the temple where his remains have rested since his death. Under his archbishopric, in 1642, Zaragoza proclaimed the Virgen del Pilar its patron saint, and in 1641 it declared miraculous the famous case of Miguel Juan Pellicer, the Miracle of Calanda. He died in Zaragoza in 1643.

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