Josep Maria Guix Ferreres (December 19, 1927-June 28, 2009) was a Catalan

Catalonia

Catalonia is an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, with the official status of a "nationality" of Spain. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Its capital and largest city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an...

, Roman Catholic Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Vic.

Guix Ferreres was ordained on May 31, 1952, to the Roman Catholic priesthood, for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Barcelona

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Barcelona

The Archdiocese of Barcelona is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in southeastern Spain and the metropolitan see of the ecclesiastical province of Barcelona which includes the suffragan dioceses of Sant Feliu de Llobregat and Terrassa....

. Pope Paul VI

Pope Paul VI

Paul VI , born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini , reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church from 21 June 1963 until his death on 6 August 1978. Succeeding Pope John XXIII, who had convened the Second Vatican Council, he decided to continue it...

 appointed him auxiliary bishop of the Barcelona Archdiocese on October 22, 1968, and he was ordained bishop on December 19, 1968. On June 20, 1983, Pope John Paul II

Pope John Paul II

Blessed Pope John Paul II , born Karol Józef Wojtyła , reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City from 16 October 1978 until his death on 2 April 2005, at of age. His was the second-longest documented pontificate, which lasted ; only Pope Pius IX ...

appointed him Bishop on the Diocese of Vic retiring on June 13, 2003.