Jaime Creus Martí

Most Reverend Jaime Creus y Martí
Archbishop of Tarragona
Portrait by Vicente López Portaña
Church	Catholic Church
In office	1820–1825
Predecessor	Antonio Bergosa y Jordán
Successor	Antonio Fernando de Echanove y de Zaldívar
Orders
Consecration	by Francesc Antoni de la Dueña y Cisneros, Pablo Sichar Ruata, Manuel Ros de Medrano
Personal details
Born	(1760-06-20)20 June 1760 Mataró, Spain
Died	Tarragona, Spain

Jaime Creus y Martí (20 June 1760 – 17 September 1825) was a Roman Catholic Bishop, Archbishop of Tarragona and a Spanish politician.

Biography

Jaime Creus was born in Mataró. He studied at the Seminary of Barcelona, where he later became a professor, and then practiced in La Garriga. After receiving his doctorate in theology from the University of Cervera, he became a canon in Seu d'Urgell.

During the Spanish War of Independence, Creus Martí was appointed President of the Provincial Junta of Catalonia and on February 23, 1810 he was elected Deputy to the Cortes of Cádiz. Although he was an open traditionalist and supporter of absolutism, he voted for national sovereignty and was one of the signatories of the Spanish Constitution of 1812. He was part of the commission in charge of drafting the Internal Regulations of the Spanish Parliament and was appointed President of the Parliament from June 24 to July 23, 1811, so that he had to intervene before the Regency of the Kingdom. Together with Felip Aner d'Esteve, he proposed that the presidency of the Regency be exercised by rotation, and he voted against the appointment of the Duke of Wellington as General-in-Chief of the coalition troops fighting against Napoleon I.

From 1815 to 1820, he was appointed Bishop of Menorca, where he had already proved his absolutist ideas by starting the action of the Catalan episcopate against the Constitution of 1812. He tried, without success, to found a seminary there.

In 1820 he obtained a promotion to the Archdiocese of Tarragona, but the new authorities of the liberal triumvirate, based on denunciations made by the town hall of Reus, opposed his appointment because of the counter-revolutionary attitude of the clergy.

In 1821 he obtained the Regency of Urgel, which he assumed jointly with Bernardo Mozo de Rosales, Marquis of Mataflorida, and the Baron of Eroles.

When in 1823 the restoration of Ferdinand VII was achieved, he could finally take possession of the Archdiocese of Tarragona and died the following year. He rests in Tarragona.

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