Ramón José de Arce

Ramón José de Arce y Rebollar (1757 – 1844) was a Spanish churchman who served as Archbishop of Burgos from 1797 to 1801; as Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition from 1797 to 1808; as Archbishop of Zaragoza from 1800 to 1816;[1][2] and as Patriarch of the West Indies from 1806 to 1815.

Ramón José de Arce was born in Selaya, Cantabria in 1757.

[3] After university he became an official in the Finance Ministry of the Real Junta de Juros.

A series of sermons that Arce delivered during the occupation were widely believed to be pro-French.

[5] As such, after Spain regained its independence during the Peninsular War in 1814, there was pressure on Arce to resign.