Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Juan Pastor | |
Bishop of Crotone | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Diocese of Crotone-Santa Severina |
Term: | 1638–1664 |
Predecessor: | Niceforo Melisseno Comneno |
Successor: | Girolamo Carafa |
Consecration: | 12 September 1638 |
Consecrated By: | Francesco Maria Brancaccio |
Death Date: | 1664 |
Death Place: | Crotone, Italy |
Juan Pastor, O.M. (died 1664) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Crotone (1638–1664).[1]
Juan Pastor was ordained a priest in the Order of the Minims.[2] On 30 August 1638, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII as Bishop of Crotone.On 12 September 1638, he was consecrated bishop by Francesco Maria Brancaccio, Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli, with Tommaso Carafa, Bishop of Vulturara e Montecorvino, and Giovanni Battista Altieri, Bishop Emeritus of Camerino, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Crotone until his death in 1664.While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of Alfonso de la Cueva-Benavides y Mendoza-Carrillo, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina (1644).