José María García Lahiguera was a Spanish Catholic prelate who served as the Archbishop of Valencia. Born in Fitero in 1903, he was ordained as a priest in 1926 and later earned a doctorate in canon law. Throughout his ecclesiastical career, he held several significant positions, including serving as the Bishop of Huelva and an auxiliary bishop in Madrid. He was an active participant in the sessions of the Second Vatican Council before resigning his archiepiscopal post in 1978.