Juan de Palafox y Mendoza
Spanish politician, administrator and Catholic clergyman / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Juan de Palafox y Mendoza (26 June 1600 – 1 October 1659) was a Spanish politician, administrator, and Catholic clergyman in 17th century Spain and a viceroy of Mexico.
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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Palafox and the second or maternal family name is Mendoza.
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Juan de Palafox y Mendoza | |
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Bishop of Puebla de los Ángeles and Osma | |
Church | Roman Catholic Church |
Archdiocese | Osma |
Appointed | 16 August 1653 |
Term ended | 1 October 1659 |
Predecessor | Antonio Valdés Herrera |
Successor | Nicolás Martinez, O.S.H. |
Other post(s) | Bishop of Puebla de los Ángeles (1639–1653) |
Orders | |
Ordination | April 1629 by Francisco Hurtado de Mendoza y Ribera |
Consecration | 27 December 1639 by Cardinal Agustín de Spínola Basadone |
Rank | Bishop |
Personal details | |
Born | Juan de Palafox y Mendoza 24 June 1600 |
Died | 1 October 1659(1659-10-01) (aged 59) Osma, Soria, Spain |
Buried | Cathedral of the Assumption of Our Lady in Burgo de Osma, El Burgo de Osma, Soria, Spain |
Sainthood | |
Feast day | 1 October |
Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
Title as Saint | Blessed |
Beatified | 5 June 2011 Cathedral of the Assumption of Our Lady in Burgo de Osma, El Burgo de Osma, Soria, Spain by Cardinal Angelo Amato, S.D.B. |
18th Viceroy of New Spain | |
In office 10 June 1642 – 23 November 1642 | |
Monarch | Philip IV |
Preceded by | Diego Roque López Pacheco Cabrera y Bobadilla |
Succeeded by | Diego García Sarmiento de Sotomayor |
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Palafox was the Bishop of Puebla (1640−1655), and the interim Archbishop of Mexico (1640−1642). He also held political office, from 10 June 1642 to 23 November 1642 as the Viceroy of New Spain. He lost a high-profile struggle with the Jesuits in New Spain, resulting in a recall to Spain, to the minor Diocese of Osma in Old Castile. Although a case was opened for his beatification shortly after he died in 1659, he was not designated "Blessed" until 2011.