Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Pedro de la Peña y Montenegro | |
Bishop of Quito | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Diocese of Quito |
Term: | 1653–1687 |
Predecessor: | Agustín de Ugarte y Sarabia |
Successor: | Sancho de Andrade de Figueroa |
Consecration: | April 1654 |
Consecrated By: | Cristóbal de Torres, O.P. |
Birth Date: | 29 April 1596 |
Birth Place: | Padrón, Kingdom of Galicia, Crown of Castile |
Death Date: | 1687 (age 90) |
Death Place: | Quito, Royal Audiencia of Quito, Viceroyalty of Peru, Spanish Empire |
Alfonso de la Peña y Montenegro (29 Apr 1596 – 1687) was a Spanish Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Quito (1653–1687).[1] [2]
Alfonso de la Peña Montenegro was born in Padrón, in the Kingdom of Galicia, Castile, on 29 April 1596. On 4 March 1653, he was selected by the King of Spain and confirmed by Pope Innocent X on 18 August 1653 as Bishop of Quito. In April 1654, he was consecrated bishop by Cristóbal de Torres, Archbishop of Santafé en Nueva Granada. He served as Bishop of Quito until his death in 1687.