Manuel Sanchez Monge

Category: Bishop of Mondoñedo-Ferrol
Birth Date: 18th April 1947
Birth Place: Fuentes de Nava (Palencia)
 Curriculum

After studying at the Seminary, he studied Teology at the Pontyfical Gregorian University in Rome, where he took his degree in 1974, presenting a minor thesis about the papal infability. In 1998, he took his doctor’s degree with the thesis ‘La familia, Iglesia doméstica’. He was ordained as a priest in Palencia on 9th August 1970. He filled the following offices: coadjutor of ‘San Lázaro’ parish church (Palencia, 1970-1971), teacher in the Seminary (Palencia, 1971-1972 and 1975-1977); diocesan delegate responsible for the media (1975-1977); rector in the Seminary, Carrión de los Condes - Palencia (1977-1982); coadjutor of ‘San José’ parish church (Palencia, 1982-1988; teacher of Religion at 'Victoria Macho’ Secondary School) (1988-1992); diocesan delegate responsible for family pastoral (1990-1992); pro-vicar general (1996-1998); rector of the Minor and Major Seminaries, Palencia (1992-1998); Professor of Theology at the Theological Institute of the Seminary, Palencia (1975), vicar general of Palencia (1999) and canon of the cathedral (2003).

 Work & Activities

He wrote the following books: ‘Antropología y Teología del Matrimonio’ (Madrid, 1987), ‘Parábolas como dardos’ (Madrid, 1992) (several editions; it was also published in Portuguese), ‘Una santidad muy humana. Espiritualidad del Hno. Rafael’ (Madrid, 1992), ‘Eclesiología. La Iglesia, misterio de comunión y misión’ (Madrid, 1994), ‘El hermano Rafael, mártir de la vocación’ (Ávila, 1995), ‘Serán una sola carne. Estudio interdisciplinar sobre el matrimonio y la familia’ (Madrid, 1996), ‘La iglesia doméstica: sus fundamentos teológicos y su radicación en la Iglesia particular (Excepta ex disertatione ad Doctoratum) (Pontificia Universitas Gregoriana)’ (Rome, 1999), ‘La pasión de solo Dios: espiritualidad del Hno. Rafael’, Ed. Monte Carmelo (Burgos, 2000) and ‘Vivir bajo la mirada de la Trinidad. Espiritualidad de D. José Gurruchaga’ (Burgos, 2002). He also published many articles in ‘Revista de espiritualidad’, ‘Misión abierta’, ‘Lumieira’, ‘Religión y Cultura’, ‘Otero’, ‘Studium legionense’, ‘Surge’ and ‘Compostellanum’.

 Other Interesting Aspects

He speaks Italian and reads English and French.