Francisco Diego Díaz de Quintanilla y de Hevía y Valdés
Spanish Roman Catholic bishop (1587-1656)
Francisco Diego Díaz de Quintanilla y de Hevía y Valdés, O.S.B. (4 October 1587 – 6 December 1656) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Antequera, Oaxaca (1655–1656) and Bishop of Durango (1639–1655).
Biography
Francisco Diego Díaz de Quintanilla y de Hevía y Valdés was born in Oviedo, Spain on 4 October 1587 and ordained a priest in the Order of Saint Benedict.
On 8 August 1639, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII as Bishop of Durango.
On 8 January 1640, he was consecrated bishop by Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, Bishop of Tlaxcala, with Cristóbal Pérez Lazarraga y Maneli Viana, Bishop of Chiapas, and Mauro Diego de Tovar y Valle Maldonado, Bishop of Caracas, serving as co-consecrators.
On 14 May 1655, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Alexander VII as Bishop of Antequera, Oaxaca.
He served as Bishop of Antequera, Oaxaca until his death on 6 December 1656.
While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of Pedro de Barrientos Lomelin, Bishop of Durango (1656); and Juan de Montiel, Bishop of Santiago de Cuba (1656).
References
External links and additional sources
Cheney, David M. "Archdiocese of Durango". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
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