Merge With The Spanish Military Vicariate
In 1705, the Patriarch Carlos de Borja Centellas was appointed by the Pope to be Vicar General of the Spanish Armies, but from 1736 on Clement XII merged the office of Vicar General of the Spanish Armies with the Patriarchate of the West Indies pro tempore et ad septennium (temporarily, for seven years), and from 1741 on to the Royal Palace's Chaplaincy. The merge of the Patriarchate and the Military Vicariate was definitively decreed by Clement XIII in 1762. In 1933, Patriarch Ramón Pérez Rodríguez was appointed bishop of Cádiz and Ceuta. The previous year, the Republican Government had abolished the Military Vicariate. Thus, the Patriarchate remained vacant. During the Civil War, the Nationalists organized a religious military service and the Holy See appointed the Cardinal Archbishop of Toledo Isidro Gomá as interim Pontifical Delegate. In 1940, Gomá died and the auxiliary bishop Gregorio Modrego was commissioned with the deceased cardinal's military duties. In 1942, Modrego was appointed bishop of Barcelona. During all that time, the Patriarchate remained vacant. In 1946, the bishop of Madrid Leopoldo Eijo y Garay was appointed Patriarch of the West Indies, but without the Military Ordinariate (a military archbisophric would be established in 1950). After Eijo's death this titular patriarchate has remained vacant, is not likely to be filled and has effectively fallen into abeyance.
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