Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
José Guerrero de Torres | |
Bishop of Gaeta | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Diocese of Gaeta |
Term: | 1693–1720 |
Predecessor: | José Sanz de Villaragut |
Successor: | Carlo Pignatelli |
Consecration: | 18 April 1693 |
Consecrated By: | Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni |
Birth Date: | 21 February 1641 |
Death Date: | 26 March 1720 (age 79) |
Death Place: | Gaeta, Italy |
José Guerrero de Torres, O.E.S.A. (21 February 1641 – 26 March 1720) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Gaeta (1693–1720).[1]
José Guerrero de Torres was born in Antequera, Spain on 21 February 1641 and ordained a priest in the Order of Hermits of Saint Augustine.[2] On 13 April 1693, he was appointed Bishop of Gaeta by Pope Innocent XII.On 18 April 1693, he was consecrated bishop by Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina, with Prospero Bottini, Titular Archbishop of Myra, and Domenico Antonio Bernardini, Bishop of Castellaneta, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Gaeta until his death on 26 March 1720.