Joaquín Lluch y Garriga

Joaquín Lluch y Garriga, OCD (22 February 1816 – 23 September 1882) was a Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church who was bishop of the Canary Islands from 1858 to 1868, bishop of Salamanca from 1868 to 1874, bishop of Barcelona from 1874 to 1877, and archbishop of Seville from 1877 until his death in 1886. He was made a cardinal in 1882.

Biography Joaquín Jacinto Lluch y Garriga was born in Manresa, Spain, on 22 February 1816. He studied in Manresa and after 1822 in Barcelona. He entered the order of Discalced Carmelites on 2 November 1830 and took his vows on 27 February 1832. In 1835, when the Spanish government began expropriating monasteries and forcing them to close, he left Spain and eventually settled in Lucca, where he completed his studies and was ordained a priest in 1838. In Lucca, he was master of novices and directed spiritual exercises; he taught philosophy, theology, and French.

When the Italian governments suppressed the Carmelite monasteries, he returned to Barcelona in 1847 without the possibility of continuing to live a monastic life. He fulfilled pastoral assignments, worked as a professor and seminary administrator, and held leadership roles within the Carmelites. He participated in the First Vatican Council in 1869-1870, where he proved one of the more eloquent spokesmen for conservatism. He advocated for requiring bishops to make pastoral visitation at least every three years and tried to soften language about the sins of the clergy.

Pope Leo XIII made him a cardinal priest on 27 March 1882.

He died six months later on 23 September 1882 in Umbrete, a village outside of Seville where the Archbishop's Palace served as his summer residence. He was interred in the chapel of Saint in the Cathedral of Seville. He had not travelled to Rome to receive his cardinal's red galero and be assigned his titular church.