{"id":736436,"date":"2022-01-05T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T17:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/05\/cardinal-francisco-alvarez-martinez-dies-at-age-96\/"},"modified":"2022-01-05T17:24:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T17:24:00","slug":"cardinal-francisco-alvarez-martinez-dies-at-age-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/05\/cardinal-francisco-alvarez-martinez-dies-at-age-96\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal Francisco Alvarez Martinez dies at age 96"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Jan. 5 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> Cardinal Francisco Alvarez Martinez, Archbishop Emeritus of Toledo, died Wednesday at age 96.<\/p>\n<p>He died in a hospital in Madrid after battling a long illness, the Vatican announced.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The College of Cardinals now consists of 214 cardinals with 120 electors and 94 non-electors.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez was born on July 14, 1925, in Santa Eulalia de Ferrones Llanera in Spain. He was ordained in 1950 and worked as a personal secretary to Archbishop Lauzurica y Torralba.<\/p>\n<p>In 1973, he was appointed Bishop of Tarazona, then later named Bishop of Calahorra and la Calzada-Logrono in 1976.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez was promoted to Archbishop of Toledo in 1995 and became a member of the Standing Commission and Executive Committee of the Spanish Episcopal Conference.<\/p>\n<p>He retired in 2002, then participated in the conclave that elected Pope Benedict XVI in 2005.<\/p>\n<div class=\"slide-image-container\">\n\t\t\t<img class=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Notable-deaths-of-2021_1_1.jpg\" width=\"647\" height=\"431\"><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"stph_caption\">Betty White attends the media preview for the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association&#8217;s Beastly Ball fundraiser at the Los Angeles Zoo in Los Angeles on June 11, 2015. The actress died December 31. She was 99 years old.  Photo by Jim Ruymen\/UPI | License Photo<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 5 (UPI) &#8212; Cardinal Francisco Alvarez Martinez, Archbishop Emeritus of Toledo, died Wednesday at age 96. He died in a hospital in Madrid after battling a long illness, the Vatican announced. Advertisement The College of Cardinals now consists of 214 cardinals with 120 electors and 94 non-electors. Martinez was born on July 14, 1925, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":736437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}