Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Lorenzo Pérez de Grado | |
Bishop of Cuzco | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Term: | 1619–1627 |
Predecessor: | Fernando Mendoza González |
Successor: | Fernando de Vera y Zuñiga |
Consecration: | 1616 |
Consecrated By: | Agustín de Carvajal |
Death Date: | 4 September 1627 |
Death Place: | Cuzco, Peru |
Previous Post: | Bishop of Paraguay (1615–1619) |
Lorenzo Pérez de Grado (died 1627) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Cuzco (1619–1627) and Bishop of Paraguay (1615–1619).[1]
On 16 September 1615, Lorenzo Pérez de Grado was appointed during the papacy of Pope Paul V as Bishop of Paraguay.[2] [3] In 1616, he was consecrated bishop by Agustín de Carvajal, Bishop of Ayacucho o Huamanga.On 18 March 1619, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Paul V as Bishop of Cuzco.He served as Bishop of Cuzco until his death on 4 September 1627.
While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of Julián de Cortázar, Bishop of Córdoba (1618).