Mariano Soler

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Mariano Soler
Archbishop of Montevideo
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See Montevideo
AppointedApril 19, 1897
Predecessor Inocencio María Yéregui
Successor Juan Francisco Aragone
Orders
OrdinationDecember 21, 1872
Personal details
Born(1846-03-25)March 25, 1846
San Carlos, Flag of Uruguay.svg  Uruguay
DiedSeptember 26, 1908(1908-09-26) (aged 62)
Gibraltar
Buried Montevideo Metropolitan Cathedral
NationalityFlag of Uruguay.svg  Uruguayan
Denomination Roman Catholic
Residence Montevideo
Previous post(s)Bishop of Montevideo
Alma mater South American College

Monsignor Dr. Mariano Soler (born 25 March 1846 in San Carlos - deceased 26 September 1908 in Gibraltar) was a Uruguayan cleric and the first Roman Catholic archbishop of Montevideo, Uruguay.

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A student at the South American College in Rome, he obtained his doctorate in Canon Law.

He was an outstanding intellectual in the area of the scientific and philosophical culture of Uruguay, and a strong defender of the ecclesiastical institutions (i.e., the prerogatives of Roman Catholic church). He was known to be a staunch opponent of the theory of natural selection of Charles Darwin and of Darwinism generally. [1]

He wrote a large number of articles of religious character and served as a lecturer in philosophy. He was also elected a deputy by the department of Canelones Department.

Biography

Tomb of Mariano Soler at the Montevideo Metropolitan Cathedral. Mariano Soler Tomb Montevideo.jpg
Tomb of Mariano Soler at the Montevideo Metropolitan Cathedral.

Soler was born on March 25, 1846, in San Carlos, Maldonado, Uruguay. In his childhood he received instruction from Fr. Angel Singla. Having expressed interest in ecclesiastical instruction in his adolescence, his family allowed him to enter as a pupil of Don's School (headed by Jaime Roldós y Pons) of Montevideo as a seminarian.

He then entered the university, and completed his seminary degree in Santa Fe. He finished his studies in the Pontifical Colegio Pio Latin American of Rome, being ordained priest on December 20, 1872. Later he obtained the title of Doctor in canon law.

Upon returning to Montevideo, he held the positions of Provisor, Prosecutor, the Vicar General of the Diocese and, between 1874 and 1890, the parish priest of the Cord Church.

He became the third bishop of Montevideo, on January 29, 1891, succeeding Monsignor Innocent Maria Yéregui. The Pope Leo XIII transformed Montevideo into an Archbishopric, and, on April 19 of that year, Soler received in Rome the investiture that would make him the first archbishop of Montevideo.

He toured America and Europe, and traveled on six occasions to the Vatican. In 1908, when returning from his last trip to Rome, he became ill from a disease in Italy, and later died in Gibraltar.

He is buried in an ornate tomb inside the Montevideo Metropolitan Cathedral.

Opposition to evolution

Soler was a Christian creationist who criticized Darwin's theory of evolution. [2] Soler defended the Biblical account of creation and argued that it was in accord to findings from science. [2] He argued that the close relationships of birds and reptiles confirms the Genesis creation narrative as both were created on the same day. In 1880, he authored a pamphlet attacking Darwinism from a Biblical perspective. [2] Science historian Thomas F. Glick has noted that Soler's "science was nothing more than a thin patina that covered a religious apology of a genre that had by this time become traditional". [2]

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References

  1. ↑ Darwin in the kingdom of the cows, Alcio Cheroni, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, Montevideo, Uruguay (in Spanish)
  2. 1 2 3 4 Puig-Samper, Miguel Angel; Ruiz, R; Glick, T. F. (2001). The Reception of Darwinism in the Iberian World Spain, Spanish America and Brazil. Kluwer Academic Publishers. p. 44-45. ISBN   1-4020-0082-0
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