Diego Evelino Hurtado de Compostela explained

Type:Bishop
Diego Evelino Hurtado Vélez
Diocese:Diocese of Santiago de Cuba
Term Start:1685
Term End:1704
Predecessor:Baltasar de Figueroa
Successor:Jerónimo Nosti de Valdés
Birth Date:1638
Birth Place:Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Death Date:August 29, 1704
Death Place:Havana, Cuba
Nationality:Spanish
Religion:Catholicism

Bishop Diego Evelino Hurtado Vélez (1638 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain - August 29, 1704 in Havana, Cuba) was the Bishop of Diocese of Santiago de Cuba (now the Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba). He was known as Bishop Diego Evelino Hurtado de Compostela.

On June 4, 1685, he was appointed Bishop of Santiago de Cuba by Pope Innocent XI and was ordained bishop on August 29, 1704, by Cardinal Savo Millini, Apostolic Nuncio to Spain. He donated his orchard in Havana for the building of Convent of Belén (later used as the Colegio de Belén). He died in Havana on August 29, 1704.[1]

In 1687 he founded La Casa de Beneficencia y Maternidad de La Habana.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Cheney . David M.. Bishop Diego Evelino Hurtado de Compostela (Vélez). Catholic-Hierarchy.org. June 16, 2018.