Ángel Suquía Goicoechea (2 October 1916 – 13 July 2006) was a Spanish Catholic cardinal who served as archbishop of Madrid from 1983 until 1994.

[1] He was one of sixteen children and was educated at the La Salle Christian Brothers at Beasain from 1925 until 1927; he then entered the Minor Seminary of Saturrarán, Motrico, Guipúzcoa, where he studied Humanities, Philosophy and Theology.

In 1939, he travelled to the Benedictine monastery of Maria Laach in Germany, to study liturgy but when the Second World War started in that same year, he quickly returned to Spain.

On 12 April 1983 he was chosen to succeed Cardinal Vicente Enrique y Tarancón as Archbishop of Madrid by Pope John Paul II.

[3] He was also an author, with his writings including Seguir a Cristo Hoy ("Follow Christ Today") and Constituciones, decretos, declaraciones ("Constitutions, decrees, declarations").