Born in Santa Coloma de Farners (Girona) in 1913 and dying in Barcelona in 1996, he was both Bishop and Cardinal. He studied at the Seminari Conciliar de Barcelona seminary where he was ordained in 1939. He would later receive a PhD in Theology from Universidad Pontificia de Comillas and in Canonical Law from Pontificia Università Gregoriana in Rome. He later served as Professor of Theology at the Seminary, as well as serving as an official of Barcelona Bishopric’s Catholic Action and Barcelona Cathedral canon (1954). He participated in the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). In 1955 he was named Head Bishop of Ortosia di Fenicia, Auxiliary Bishop of Barcelona in 1964, Bishop of Girona in 1964 and Archbishop of Barcelona in 1971.

In 1973 he was ordained Cardinal and participated in the two conclaves of 1978. In 1981, Pope John Paul II named him a Member of the “Council of Cardinals to study the economic and organisational problems of the Holy See.” In 1990 he resigned as Archbishop of Barcelona due to his age. However, he had encouraged the creation of Universitat Ramon Llull since 1988 and served as its first President (1990-1994) and as URL’s Honorary President until his death in 1996. Amongst other works, he published, “The vote of chastity in sacred ordination” (1952), one of his PhD theses, and "The deaconship and ecclesiastic celibacy " (1964). In 1992 a collection of his work was published in his honour.

Awarded: October, 1st 1997