sentences:  From 1962 to 1965, Monreal attended the Second Vatican Council; along with Cardinal José Quintero Parra, he assisted Cardinal Paul Zoungrana in delivering one of the closing messages of the Council on 8 December 1965.He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 1963 papal conclave, and again in the conclaves of August and October 1978.He resigned as archbishop of Seville on 22 May 1982, after a reign of twenty-five years.