sentences:  Monreal received his episcopal consecration on 19 March 1946 from Bishop Leopoldo Eijo y Garay, with Bishops Casimiro Morcillo González and Luigi Muñoyerro serving as co-consecrators.He was later named Bishop of Vitoria on 13 May 1950, and Coadjutor Archbishop of Seville and Titular Archbishop of Antiochia in Pisidia on 27 October 1954.As coadjutor, Monreal served under Cardinal Pedro Segura y Sáenz, who refused even to see Monreal and tried to stop his efforts to soften the Cardinal's strict rules for Sevillian Catholics.