Joan Planellas Barnosell

Joan Planellas i Barnosell (born 7 November 1955) is a Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church. He has been serving as the archbishop of Tarragona since his installation on 4 May 2019. He previously served as a canon on the Girona Cathedral. He was also given the title, that is a group of priests that were designated by the Pope to forgive serious sins normally only reserved to the Holy See. Barnosell became a priest on 28 March 1982.

Biography Planellas was born in Girona on 7 November 1955. He grew up in Colomers. He studied at the Diocesan Seminary of Girona from 1968 to 1979 and was ordained a priest on 28 March 1982. He studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University from 1979 to 1981 and in 2003–2004, earning a doctorate in dogmatic theology. In 2008, he was appointed Canon of the Cathedral Chapter in Girona and since 2013 has been a member of its Presbyterian Council. His episcopal consecration and installation are scheduled for 8 June. His appointment was unusual in that a priest is rarely made archbishop without having been a bishop, though Francis has made a similar appointment for Lima, Peru, in January 2019.

Catalan Proponents of Catalan culture and independence welcomed the appointment because a non-Catalan had been rumored a likely appointment and half the bishops in Catalonia are not native to the region. One columnist saw the appointment as a shift from a "stigmatized" conservative view of the Girona clergy as political and separatist and credited Archbishop Juan José Omella of Barcelona with this “brave commitment to the Catalan church". This dispute served as the basis for some 2019 headlines that called Panellas a "radical separatist" (separatista radical). Church sources described Planellas as "firmly Catalan but not radical".

Writings Selected major works: L’Església dels pobres» en el Concili Vaticà II (Col·lectània Sant Pacià 105), Barcelona: FTC 2013, 237 pp.; edició castellana, La Iglesia de los pobres en el Concilio Vaticano II, Barcelona: Herder 2014, 299 pp.; edició italiana, La Chiesa dei poveri. La sfida sempre attuale del Concilio Vaticano II, Prefazione di Armand Puig i Tàrrech (I libri di Sant’Egidio), Milano: Mondadori 2015; 279 pp. Bisbes, preveres i diaques. Els ministeris ordenats, Litúrgia Bàsica nº 26, Barcelona, Centre de Pastoral Litúrgica 2005, 24 pp.; traducció castellana, Obispos, presbíteros y diáconos. Los ministerios ordenados, Barcelona, Centre de Pastoral Litúrgica 2005, 24 pp. La recepción del Vaticano II en los manuales de eclesiología españoles, Ed. Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Serie Teologia nº 111, Roma 2004, 598 pp. (tesi doctoral). El Santuari de la Font Santa de Jafre, Col·lecció «Sant Feliu», nº 24, Girona: Gràfiques Cantalozella 2002, 63 pp. La maternitat de l’Església. Algunes reflexions per a la recuperació d’aquest concepte a l’Església d’avui, Quaderns de l’Institut Superior de Ciències Religioses de Girona, nº 7, Girona: ISCRG 2000, 51 pp.