Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | The Most Reverend |
Damián Iguacén Borau | |
Bishop Emeritus of San Cristóbal de La Laguna | |
Church: | Roman Catholic Church |
Diocese: | San Cristóbal de La Laguna |
See: | San Cristóbal de La Laguna |
Appointed: | 14 August 1984 |
Term End: | 12 June 1991 |
Predecessor: | Luis Franco Cascón |
Successor: | Felipe Fernández García |
Ordination: | 7 June 1941 |
Ordained By: | Lino Rodrigo Ruesca |
Consecration: | 11 October 1970 |
Consecrated By: | Luigi Dadaglio |
Birth Name: | Damián Iguacén Borau |
Birth Date: | 12 February 1916 |
Birth Place: | Fuencalderas, Aragón, Spain |
Death Place: | Huesca, Spain |
Motto: | El ultimo de todos y el servidor de todos |
Damián Iguacén Borau (12 February 1916 – 24 November 2020) was a Spanish bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.
Iguacén Borau was born in Fuencalderas, Spain and ordained a priest on 7 June 1941. He was consecrated bishop of the Barbastro Diocese on 11 October 1970. Subsequently, he was transferred to the Diocese of Teruel and Albarracín on 23 September 1974 and then to the tenth bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Cristóbal de La Laguna on 14 August 1984 where he remained until his retirement on 12 June 1991.
He turned 100 in February 2016.[1] At the age of 104 years, he was the oldest living Catholic bishop until his death.[2] [3] Iguacén Borau died on 24 November 2020, in Huesca, Spain at the age of 104.[4]