About Antonio Cañizares Llovera
Antonio Cañizares Llovera is a Spanish Catholic cardinal who served as Archbishop of Valencia from 2014 to 2022. He was prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments from 2008 to 2014, Archbishop of Toledo and Primate of Spain from 2002 to 2008, and Archbishop of Granada from 1996 to 2002. He was made a cardinal in 2006. He undertook his first parish work in October 1972 at Santa María in Alcoy and there also served as a university chaplain, founded and ran schools for catechists. He also founded and was the first president of Asociación Española de Catequistas, and was director of the review Teología y Catequesis. On 8 April 2006, Benedict made him a member of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, his first assignment related to the liturgy issues that became his focus in later years. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera on 4 July 2007.
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