Juan de Castro
Spanish cardinal
Juan de Castro (1431–1506) (called the Cardinal of Agrigento) was a Spanish Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.
Biography
Juan de Castro was born in Valencia on March 22, 1431, the son of nobles Pedro Galcerán de Castre-Pinòs y Tramaced and Blanca de Só, viscountess of Évol.
He began his ecclesiastical career as a cleric in the see of Elne. He was later the Abbot of Fossanova Abbey. He was a familiar of Cardinal Roderic Llançol i de Borja, who later became Pope Alexander VI.
On February 19, 1479, he was elected Bishop of Agrigento. Pope Sixtus IV confirmed his election on March 20, 1479, and Castro subsequently occupied this see until his death. He attended the papal conclave of 1484 as a custodian. Following the papal conclave of 1492, the new pope, Alexander VI, made Castro prefect of the Castel Sant'Angelo.
Pope Alexander VI made him a cardinal priest in the consistory of February 19, 1496. He received the red hat and the titular church of Santa Prisca on February 24, 1496.
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