Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Agustin de Hinojosa y Montalvo | |
Bishop of Nicaragua | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Diocese of Nicaragua |
Term: | 1630–1631 |
Predecessor: | Benito Rodríguez Valtodano |
Successor: | Juan Barahona Zapata del Águila |
Consecration: | 16 September 1630 |
Consecrated By: | Juan Guzman |
Birth Date: | 1575 |
Birth Place: | Madrid, Spain |
Death Date: | 5 July 1631 (age 56) |
Death Place: | León, Nicaragua |
Nationality: | Spanish |
Agustin de Hinojosa y Montalvo, O.F.M. (1575 - 5 July 1631) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Nicaragua (1630–1631).[1] [2]
Agustin de Hinojosa y Montalvo was born in Madrid, Spain in 1575 and ordained a priest in the Order of Friars Minor.[3] On 12 August 1630, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII as Bishop of Nicaragua. On 16 September 1630, he was consecrated bishop by Juan Guzman, Archbishop of Tarragona with Francisco Olivares Maldonado, Auxiliary Bishop of Toledo, and Cristóforo Chrisostome Carletti, Bishop of Termia, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Nicaragua until his death on 5 July 1631.