Type: | Cardinal |
Honorific-Prefix: | His Eminence |
Judas José Romo y Gamboa | |
Archbishop of Seville | |
Church: | Catholic |
Archdiocese: | Seville |
Predecessor: | Francisco Javier de Cienfuegos y Jovellanos |
Consecration: | 1 May 1834 |
Consecrated By: | Pedro José de Fonte y Hernández Miravete |
Cardinal: | 30 September 1850 |
Created Cardinal By: | Pope Pius IX |
Birth Date: | 1779 1, df=y |
Birth Place: | Toledo, Spain |
Death Place: | Seville, Spain |
Coat Of Arms: | Template-Cardinal.svg |
Judas José Romo y Gamboa (7 January 1779 – 11 January 1855) was a Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Cardinal Archbishop of Seville.[1] Previously he had served as Bishop of Canarias in the Canary Islands.
He was born in Toledo, Spain to Brigadier Francisco Romo y Gamboa (1746–1813) and Ramona Fernández Manrique (1750–1787), and was educated at the University of Huesca.[2] Details of his ordination to the priesthood are not known, however, he was selected as Bishop of Canarias by Pope Gregory XVI in 1833 and took up the role on 1 May 1834.[3] In September 1847 Pope Pius IX named him Archbishop of Seville a subsequently elevated him to Cardinal Priest on 30 September 1850.[4]
He died on 11 January 1855 in Seville.