Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Diego Guevara | |
Bishop of Nueva Caceres | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Term: | 1616–1621 |
Predecessor: | Pedro Matías |
Successor: | Luis de Cañizares |
Consecration: | 1616 |
Consecrated By: | Pedro Castro Quiñones |
Birth Date: | 1568 |
Birth Place: | Baeza, Spain |
Death Date: | 1621 |
Death Place: | Nueva Caceres |
Diego Guevara, O.S.A. (1568–1621) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Nueva Caceres (1616–1621).[1] [2]
Diego Guevar was born in Baeza, Spain in 1568 and ordained a priest in the Order of Saint Augustine.On 3 August 1616, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Paul V as Bishop of Nueva Caceres.In 1616, he was consecrated bishop by Pedro Castro Quiñones, Archbishop of Seville.He served as Bishop of Nueva Caceres until his death in 1621.