Pedro Rocamora y García

Pedro Rocamora y García (11 February 1832 – 19 January 1925) was a Spanish Roman Catholic bishop and senator.

Biography His parents were called José and Josefa. He was born at the Granja de Rocamora village in the province of Alicante, and was baptized the 12th February 1832.

He passed the first three years of a philosophy degree from 1845 to 1848, at the local institute of Orihuela.

Rocamora introduced in his diocese the practise of reading religious meditations at the churches during Lent, using a series of spiritual exercises written by the bishop of Orihuela Félix Herrero Valverde which were popular at Spain by that time. On a diocesan encyclical, he stressed the importance of teaching Christian doctrine to the locals. He praised Ramón Nocedal, its director and founder of the Integrist Party, as a «distinguished confessor of Christ and ornament of Religion and the Fatherland».