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Identification

Type:

Person

Preferred form:

Aramburu Cendoya, Ignacio (1905-1968)

Fechas de existencia:

Bilbao (Bizkaia, España) 1905-07-30 - 1968-05-06

History:

Spanish Augustinian priest, historian, and archivist.

He started at a very young age helping in an Augustinian church located in the center of Bilbao.

He joined the Augustinian Order on 22nd August 1920 and entered the Real Colegio Seminario of Valladolid, afterwards he attended the International College of Santa Monica where he was ordained on 29th July 1928.

He studied in the Scuola di Paleografia e Diplomática of the Vaticano and in 1931 he received his archivist diploma. Since that year and until 1934 he continued his studies at the University of Würzburg (Germany).

He was appointed deputy secretary by the general of the Order on 25 December 1936 and later general archive in 1937. He graduated in Church History from the Gregorian University. In 1947 he was elected general secretary by the General chapter and in 1958, vicar general of the Order. Five years later he assumed the position of vicar-general.

In 1958 he was the founder of the Association of Church Archives in Rome and from that year on the retook his historical research without his former duties and went to various archives and libraries. He had an important Bibliographic Production that was mainly published in the magazine "Archivo Agustiniano", in which he held the position of director between 1962 and 1965. He participated in the Gran Enciclopedia de Rialp and in the Diccionario de Historia Eclesiástica of Spain.

He died in Madrid in 1968.