Félix Erviti Barcelona was a Spanish

Spain

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 Roman Catholic priest, in the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. He was ordained as priest on February 19, 1933. In 1954 he was appointed apostolic prefect

Apostolic prefect

An apostolic prefect is a priest who heads what is known as an apostolic prefecture, a missionary area where the Catholic Church is not yet sufficiently developed to have it made a diocese....

 of Spanish Sahara

Spanish Sahara

Spanish Sahara was the name used for the modern territory of Western Sahara when it was ruled as a territory by Spain between 1884 and 1975...

 and Ifni

Ifni

Ifni was a Spanish province on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, south of Agadir and across from the Canary Islands.It had a total area of 1,502 km² , and a population of 51,517 in 1964. The main industry was fishing....

. He served as the apostolic prefect of Western Sahara

Western Sahara

Western Sahara is a disputed territory in North Africa, bordered by Morocco to the north, Algeria to the northeast, Mauritania to the east and south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Its surface area amounts to . It is one of the most sparsely populated territories in the world, mainly...

 until 1994, when he was succeeded by Acacio Valbuena Rodríguez

Acacio Valbuena Rodríguez

Fr. Acacio Valbuena Rodríguez was the Roman Catholic Prefect for Western Sahara. He was a priest in the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. Fr. Rodríguez had an audience with Pope Benedict XVI in Rome on 8 June 2007. Fr. Rodríguez has also attended the Assembly of the Conference of Bishops of North...

. After the 1975 occupation of Western Sahara by Morocco

Morocco

Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...

Erviti spent 19 years in the Sahrawi desert camps.