Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Sebastián de Salamanca | |
Bishop of Santiago de Cuba | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Diocese of Santiago de Cuba |
Term: | 1530–1534 |
Predecessor: | Sebastián de Salamanca |
Successor: | Diego de Sarmiento |
Consecration: | 5 January 1533 |
Consecrated By: | Alfonso Manrique de Lara y Solís |
Birth Place: | Salamanca, Spain |
Death Date: | 1534 |
Death Place: | Santiago de Cuba |
Miguel Ramírez de Salamanca, O.P. (died 1534) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Santiago de Cuba (1530–1534).[1]
Miguel Ramírez de Salamanca was born in Salamanca, Spain and was ordained as a priest in the Order of Preachers.[2] On 7 November, 1530, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Clement VII as the Bishop of Santiago de Cuba. On 5 January, 1533, he was consecrated as the bishop by Alfonso Manrique de Lara y Solís, Archbishop of Seville, with Baltasar del Río, Bishop of Scala, and Luis de Vivaldis, Bishop of Arbe, serving as co-consecrators. He served as the Bishop of Santiago de Cuba until his death in 1534.