Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Jerónimo Albornoz | |
Bishop of Córdoba | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Diocese of Córdoba |
Term: | 1570–1574 |
Predecessor: | Francisco Beaumonte |
Successor: | Jerónimo de Villa Carrillo |
Consecration: | 22 July 1571 |
Consecrated By: | Francisco Pacheco de Villena |
Birth Date: | 1530 |
Birth Place: | Spain |
Death Date: | 27 October 1574 |
Death Place: | Córdoba, Argentina |
Nationality: | Spanish |
Jerónimo Albornoz, O.F.M. (1530–1574) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Córdoba (1570–1574).[1] [2] [3]
Jerónimo Albornoz was born in Spain in 1530 and ordained a priest in the Order of Friars Minor.[4] On 27 August 1570, he was selected by the King of Spain as Bishop of Córdoba and confirmed by Pope Pius V on 8 November 1570. On 22 July 1571, he was consecrated bishop by Francisco Pacheco de Villena, Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, with Balduino de Balduinis, Bishop of Aversa, and Antonio Rodríguez de Pazos y Figueroa, Bishop of Patti, with serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Córdoba until his death on 27 October 1574.