Juan de Sanclemente Torquemada explained

Honorific-Prefix:Most Reverend
Juan de Sanclemente Torquemada
Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela
Church:Catholic Church
Archdiocese:Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela
Term:1587–1602
Predecessor:Alonso Velázquez
Successor:Maximilian of Austria
Consecration:25 January 1579
Consecrated By:Francisco Blanco Salcedo
Birth Date:19 August 1534
Birth Place:Córdoba, Spain
Death Date:20 April 1602 (age 67)
Death Place:Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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Juan de Sanclemente Torquemada (19 August 1534  - 20 April 1602) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela (1587–1602) and Bishop of Ourense (1578–1587).[1]

Biography

Juan de Sanclemente Torquemada was born in Córdoba, Spain. On 7 July 1578, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Gregory XIII as Bishop of Ourense. On 25 January 1579, he was consecrated bishop by Francisco Blanco Salcedo, Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, with Fernando Vellosillo Barrio, Bishop of Lugo, and Diego Torquemada, Bishop of Tui, serving as co-consecrators. On 27 July 1587, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Sixtus V as Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela. He served as Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela until his death on 20 April 1602.

Episcopal succession

While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of Miguel Ares Canaval, Bishop of Orense (1595); Francisco de Tolosa, Bishop of Tui (1597); and Francisco Terrones del Caño, Bishop of Tui (1601).

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bsator.html "Archbishop Juan de Sanclemente Torquemada"