Biographical profile of the canonist Juan Jose Alfranca y Castellote 1754-1817), Rector of the College of Bologna

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  • Antonio Astorgano Abajo Instituto «Xavier María de Munibe» de Estudios del Siglo XVIII en el País Vasco

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/hs.2009.v61.i123.88

Keywords:

Juan Jose Alfranca y Castellote, Llerena, Caceres Courthouse, Teruel Bishopric, School of Saint Clement of Bolonia

Abstract


Juan Jose Alfranca y Castellote (Zaragoza, 8.III.1754 – Cuevas de Cañart [Teruel], 1817) of nobleman origin, doctor in canon laws by the universities of Zaragoza and Bolonia, wassuccesfully, schoolboy and rector of Saint Clement school for Spaniards in Bolonia (1780,1788), Mayor of crime in the courthouse of Seville, listener and one of the foundersof the Royal Courthouse of Extremadura (1791), and doctoral canon and then ecclesiastical governor of the Teruel diocese during the French invasion (1812). In this essay, the stages of his vital road are highlighted, as well as the features of his personality which are characterized by his uprightness and deep law knowledge and by his reformist and well educated atitude, as he made clear in the cross-examination to the Llerena Perty (1791).

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Published

2009-06-30

How to Cite

Astorgano Abajo, A. (2009). Biographical profile of the canonist Juan Jose Alfranca y Castellote 1754-1817), Rector of the College of Bologna. Hispania Sacra, 61(123), 279–352. https://doi.org/10.3989/hs.2009.v61.i123.88

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