| Type: | Bishop |
| Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
| Antonio Avendaño y Paz | |
| Bishop of Quito | |
| Church: | Catholic Church |
| Diocese: | Diocese of Quito |
| Term: | 1588–1590 |
| Predecessor: | Pedro de la Peña |
| Successor: | Luis López de Solís |
| Ordination: | 1550 |
| Ordained By: | Jerónimo de Loaysa |
| Consecration: | 9 February 1567 |
| Birth Date: | 1520 |
| Birth Place: | Salamanca, Spain |
| Death Date: | 7 November 1590 (age 70) |
| Death Place: | Quito, Ecuador |
| Previous Post: | Bishop of Quito (1588–1590) |
| Nationality: | Spanish |
Antonio Avendaño y Paz, O.F.M. or Bishop Antonio de San Miguel Avendaño y Paz (1520 – 7 November 1590) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Quito (1588–1590) and Bishop of La Imperial (1564–1588).[1]
Antonio Avendaño y Paz was born in Salamanca, Spain in 1520 and ordained a priest in the Order of Friars Minor in 1550.[2] [3] On 22 March 1564, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Pius IV as the first Bishop of La Imperial.On 9 February 1567, he was consecrated bishop by Jerónimo de Loaysa, Archbishop of Lima, with Pedro de la Peña, Bishop of Quito, as co-consecrator, and Father Bartolomé Martinez Menacho y Mesa, assisting. On 17 September 1568, he was installed as Bishop of Concepción.On 9 March 1588, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Sixtus V as Bishop of Quito.He served as Bishop of Quito until his death on 7 November 1590.
While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of Diego de Medellín, Bishop of Santiago de Chile (1577); and the principal co-consecrator of Alfonso Guerra, Bishop of Paraguay (1582).