Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Juan de Ortega | |
Bishop-Elect of Chiapas | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Diocese of Chiapas |
Term: | 1539–1540 |
Successor: | Juan de Arteaga y Avendaño |
Death Date: | 1557 |
Juan de Ortega, O.S.H. (– August 1557)[1] was a Roman Catholic prelate who was appointed the first Bishop of Chiapas (1539–1540).
Juan de Ortega was ordained a priest in the Order of Saint Jerome. On 30 Mar 1539, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Paul III as Bishop of Chiapas.
He has been proposed as the author of Lazarillo de Tormes.[1]