Juan de Medina Rincón y de la Vega explained

Type:Bishop
Honorific-Prefix:Most Reverend
Juan de Medina Rincón y de la Vega
Bishop of Michoacán
Church:Catholic Church
Term:1574–1588
Predecessor:Antonio Ruíz de Morales y Molina
Successor:Alfonso Guerra
Consecration:5 December 1574
Consecrated By:Pedro de Moya y Contreras
Birth Date:27 December 1520
Death Date:30 June 1588 (age 67)
Death Place:Michoacán
Nationality:Spanish

Juan de Medina Rincón y de la Vega, O.S.A. (27 December 1520 – 30 June 1588) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Michoacán (1574–1588).[1] [2]

Biography

Juan de Medina Rincón y de la Vega was born on 27 December 1520 in Medina del Campo, Spain and ordained a priest in the Order of Saint Augustine. On 18 June 1574, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Gregory XIII as Bishop of Michoacán. On 5 December 1574, he was consecrated bishop by Pedro de Moya y Contreras, Archbishop of México, with Antonio Ruíz de Morales y Molina, Bishop of Tlaxcala, serving as co-consecrator.

While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of Alfonso Graniero Avalos, Bishop of La Plata o Charcas (1579). In 1585, he attended the Third Mexican Provincial Council.[3]

He served as Bishop of Michoacán until his death on 30 June 1588.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Eubel, Konrad. HIERARCHIA CATHOLICA MEDII ET RECENTIORIS AEVI Vol III. 239. 1923. Libreria Regensbergiana. Münster. second. (in Latin)
  2. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bdemedina.html "Bishop Juan de Medina Rincón y de la Vega, O.S.A."
  3. Poole . Stafford . The Church and the Repartimientos in the Light of the Third Mexican Council, 1585 . The Americas . 1963 . 20 . 1 . 3–36 . 10.2307/979670 . 24 May 2024 . 0003-1615.