Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Juan Antonio Diaz de Salcedo | |
Bishop of Nicaragua | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Diocese of Nicaragua |
Term: | 1597–1603 |
Predecessor: | Alfonso de la Mota y Escobar |
Successor: | Pedro de Villarreal |
Birth Place: | Burgos, Spain |
Death Date: | 1603 |
Death Place: | León, Nicaragua |
Previous Post: | Bishop of Santiago de Cuba (1580–1597) |
Juan Antonio Diaz de Salcedo, O.F.M. (died 1603) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Nicaragua (1597–1603)[1] [2] and Bishop of Santiago de Cuba (1580–1597).[3] [4]
Juan Antonio Diaz de Salcedo was born in Burgos, Spain and ordained a priest in the Order of Friars Minor.[5] [6] On 14 March 1580, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Gregory XIII as Bishop of Santiago de Cuba. On 28 July 1597, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Clement VIII as Bishop of Nicaragua. He served as Bishop of Nicaragua until his death in 1603.
. Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi . Konrad Eubel. III. 256–257. 1923. Libreria Regensbergiana. Münster. second. (in Latin)
. Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi . Konrad Eubel. III. 182. 1923. Libreria Regensbergiana. Münster. second. (in Latin)