Pedro de Azuaga explained

Type:Bishop
Honorific-Prefix:Most Reverend
Pedro de Azuaga
Bishop-Elect of Santiago de Chile
Church:Catholic Church
Diocese:Diocese of Santiago de Chile
Term:1596–1597
Predecessor:Diego de Medellín
Successor:Juan Pérez de Espinosa
Birth Date:1539
Birth Place:Azuaga, Spain
Death Date:November 1597 (age 58)
Death Place:Santiago de Chile
Nationality:Spanish

Pedro de Azuaga, O.F.M. (1539 – November 1597) was a Roman Catholic prelate who was Bishop-Elect of Santiago de Chile (1596–1597).[1] [2] [3]

He was born in Azuaga, Spain in 1539 and ordained a priest in the Order of Friars Minor.On 29 January 1596, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Clement VIII as Bishop of Santiago de Chile.Azuaga died before he was consecrated bishop in November 1597.

Notes and References

  1. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bdeazuaga.html "Father Pedro de Azuaga, O.F.M."
  2. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dsacl.html "Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile"
  3. http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/ztia1.htm#5511 "Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santiago"