Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Pedro Portocarrero y Guzmán | |
Patriarch of West Indies Titular Archbishop of Tyrus | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Term: | 1691–1708 |
Predecessor: | Antonio de Benavides y Bazán |
Successor: | Carlos Borja Centellas y Ponce de León |
Consecration: | 4 Nov 1691 |
Consecrated By: | Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero-Bocanegra y Moscoso-Osorio |
Birth Date: | 1640 |
Birth Place: | Montijo, Spain |
Death Date: | 1708 |
Death Place: | Avignon, France |
Pedro Portocarrero y Guzmán (1640–1708) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Patriarch of West Indies (1691–1708) and Titular Archbishop of Tyrus (1691–1708).
Pedro Portocarrero y Guzmán was born on February 27, 1640[1] in Montijo, Spain.On 27 Aug 1691, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent XII as Titular Archbishop of Tyrus.On 4 Nov 1691, he was consecrated bishop by Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero-Bocanegra y Moscoso-Osorio, Archbishop of Toledo, with Fernando Guzmán, Bishop of Segovia, and Luis de Lemos y Usategui, Bishop of Concepción, serving as co-consecrators.On 12 Nov 1691, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent XII as Patriarch of West Indies.He served as Patriarch of West Indies until his death in 1708.In 1706 he left Madrid to settle in Avignon where he died on January 21, 1708.[1]