Honorific-Prefix: | His Most Reverend |
Antonio Victor Pildáin y Zapiáin | |
Bishop of Diocese of Canarias | |
Diocese: | Canarias |
Archdiocese: | Seville |
Predecessor: | Miguel de los Santos Serra y Sucarrats |
Successor: | José Antonio Infantes Florido |
Ordination: | 13 September 1913 |
Consecration: | 14 February 1937 |
Consecrated By: | Federico Tedeschini |
Nationality: | Spanish |
Religion: | Roman Catholic |
Motto: | Fortitudo nostra nomen Jesu |
Antonio Victor Pildáin y Zapiáin (17 January 1890 - 7 May 1973) was a Spanish prelate of the Roman Catholic church and Bishop of the Diocese of Canarias.[1]
Pildáin was born on the 17 January 1890 in Guipúzcoa in the Basque region of Spain. He studied for the priesthood in Vitoria-Gasteiz and Rome and was ordained on 13 September 1913. On the 18 May 1936, Pope Pius XI named him bishop of the Diocese of Canarias - part of the Canary Islands including the islands of Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura. He retired from his role in 1966 and died in Las Palmas on 7 May 1973.[2]