Manuel Pérez de Araciel y Rada

Most Reverend Manuel Pérez de Araciel y Rada
Archbishop of Zaragoza
Church	Catholic Church
In office	1687–1710
Predecessor	Antonio Ibáñez de la Riva Herrera
Successor	Tomás Crespo Agüero
Orders
Consecration	1714
Personal details
Died	27 September 1726 Zaragoza

Manuel Pérez de Araciel y Rada (1653-27 September 1726) was a Spanish bishop from (1714-1726).^{[1] [2][3][4]} He was Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of León, Spain from 28 April 1704 and then Roman Catholic Archbishop of Zaragoza diocese from 27 March 1714 till his death. (27 September 1726)^[5]

He is known the epistle Carta pastoral. The Carta pastoral is a 10-page epistle "To the...Rhetors, Vicars, Racioneros, Beneficiaries, and other Priests, and Ecclesiastes... of our Diocese, and especially to those of the Villas of Belchite, Cariñena, Epila, and the Places six leagues around each of them."^[6]

References

1. Archbishop Manuel Pérez Araciel y Rada.
2. Episcopologio Español, Volume 1,700, Page 24, Number 34
3. Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1704, Number 31
4. Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 5, Page 132, and Page 240.
5. "[Retrato de Manuel Perez de Araciel y Rada]".
6. Rada), Zaragoza (Diócesis) Arzobispo (Manuel Pérez de Araciel y (1719). "[Carta pastoral. Don Manuel Perez de Araciel y Rada ... Arzobispo de Zaragoza ... A los ... Retores, Vicarios, Racioneros, Beneficiados, y demás Sacerdotes, y Eclesiasticos ... de nuestra Diocesi, y especialmente á los de las Villas de Belchite, Cariñena, Epila, y de los Lugares de seis leguas al contorno de cada una de ellas ... ]" (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 October 2023.