I have always considered him one of the best bishops in Spain.
With him, these days, there is an uncertainty to clear up. Seville or Barcelona?
Undoubtedly, he would be the best candidate for the great Catalan archdiocese, with immense differences from any other. But Saiz Meneses is delighted with Seville and Seville with him, what he achieved ¡in just five years! Undeniable merit of his own. And even greater if anything for a man from Cuenca raised in Catalonia. The least Sevillian one can imagine. Amigo, who made himself with Seville to supernotable extremes, was an old Castilian. Asenjo, a very good person and also an excellent bishop, did not reach the heights of Amigo and Saiz Meneses. The current one lacks the cardinal’s purple, which hopefully will come to him, and which the Sevillians considered essential to their archbishop.
Since the 19th century it was represented by Luis de Borbón, Cienfuegos, Romo, Tarancón and Morón, Lastra, Lluch, González and Díaz Tuñón, Sanz and Forés, Spínola, Ilundain, Segura, Bueno and Amigo. Surely Saiz Meneses, if it comes to him, will wear it very well.
Will they take Saiz Meneses to Barcelona? For the Catalan archdiocese it would be an excellent appointment. For the archbishop of Seville personally terrible. There is no purple that compensates for the Catalan hornet’s nest. And at his seventy years, which he will turn next August 2, he well deserves a peaceful and pleasant end in Seville.
However, it seems suicidal to send to Barcelona the incomprehensible episcopal nullity that the archbishop of Pamplona has been. Roselló, in comparison with Saiz Meneses, is, and forgive the popular saying, like comparing God to a gypsy. I don’t want to offend the One nor the others. Roselló doesn’t matter to me.