Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Angel de Maldonado | |
Bishop of Antequera | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Diocese of Antequera |
Term: | 1700–1728 |
Predecessor: | Manuel Plácido de Quirós de Porras |
Successor: | Francisco de Santiago y Calderón |
Consecration: | 2 January 1701 |
Consecrated By: | Francesco Acquaviva d'Aragona |
Birth Date: | 1660 |
Birth Place: | Ocaña, Spain |
Death Date: | 17 April 1728 (age 68) |
Death Place: | Antequera, Oaxaca, México |
Nationality: | Spanish |
Angel de Maldonado, O. Cist. (1660–1728) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Antequera (1700–1728).[1]
Angel de Maldonado was born in Ocaña, Spain in 1660 and ordained a priest in the Cistercian Order.[2] On 21 June 1700, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent XII as Bishop of Antequera.On 2 January 1701, he was consecrated bishop by Francesco Acquaviva d'Aragona, Titular Archbishop of Larissa in Thessalia, with Gregorio Solórzano Castillo, Bishop of Ávila, and Francisco Zapata Vera y Morales, Titular Bishop of Dara, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Antequera until his death on 17 April 1728.
While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of Juan Benito Garret y Arlovi, Bishop of Nicaragua (1710); and José Pérez de Lanciego Eguiluz y Mirafuentes, Archbishop of México (1714).