The Cathedral of Valencia (Spain) hosts this Monday the funeral mass for the eternal rest of Mons. Vicente Juan Segura, auxiliary bishop emeritus of this archdiocese, whose resignation Pope Francis accepted in 2023 at the age of 68.
Bishop Segura died last Friday at the age of 69, 43 years after his ordination to the priesthood in 1981. Doctor in Canon Law from the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome and doctor in Civil Law from the University of Valencia, he entered the diplomatic service of the Holy See.
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Between 1988 and 1994, he worked as secretary in the apostolic nunciatures in Costa Rica, Morocco and Mozambique. From there he was assigned to the Secretariat of State of the Holy See, where he served as head of the Spanish Language Section.
In January 2005, Pope John Paul II appointed him Bishop of Ibiza. After the death of the Polish Pontiff, he was consecrated bishop in the Cathedral of Santa María in Ibiza on May 14 of that year. He carried out his pastoral work in the Spanish island diocese until 2020, when he returned to his homeland as auxiliary bishop.
In the Spanish Episcopal Conference he was a member of the Board for Legal Affairs since 2008 and, since 2020, a member of the Episcopal Legal Council.
On February 25, 2023, Pope Francis accepted his resignation, submitted for health reasons.
His burning chapel was installed this Monday in the Archbishopric of Valencia. Archbishop Enrique Benavent presided over the celebration of the funeral in the Metropolitan Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of Our Lady
Nicholas de Cardenas
Born in 1980, I am a Spanish husband and father and journalist with more than 20 years of experience in print and digital media, specializing in sociopolitical and religious information. I have worked for more than 10 years in defense of human rights and have accreditations in Journalism and Comprehensive Communication. Since July 2022, I have been a correspondent for ACI Prensa and EWTN Noticias in Spain, covering international events of the Catholic Church.