Francisco Javier Martínez Fernández

Francisco Javier Martínez Fernández (born 20 December 1947) is a Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church.

[1][2] In 1979, Martínez Fernández enrolled at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. to study Syriac language and literature, and was assistant to the professor from 1981 to 1983.

[3] In what the judge called a "peculiar and unusual case", he was made to pay €3,750 in damages to the similarly named priest Francisco Javier Martínez Medina for coercion and insults.

[4] In the Romanones case in 2014, a man from Granada wrote to Pope Francis about his experience of sexual abuse in the church.

[5] After turning 75 years old, Martínez Fernández's resignation was accepted and on 1 February 2023 he was succeeded by José María Gil Tamayo.