Melchor Maldonado y Saavedra

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Most Reverend Melchor Maldonado y Saavedra
Bishop of Córdoba
Church	Catholic Church
Diocese	Diocese of Córdoba
In office	1635–1662
Predecessor	Tomás de la Torre Gibaja
Successor	Francisco de Borja (bishop)
Orders
Consecration	1633 by Hernando de Arias y Ugarte
Personal details
Born	1588 Río de la Hacha
Died	11 February 1662 (age 74) Córdoba, Argentina

Melchor Maldonado y Saavedra, O.S.A. (1588–1662) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Córdoba (1635–1662).^[1]^[2]^[3]

Biography

Melchor Maldonado y Saavedra was born in Río de la Hacha in 1588 and ordained a priest in the Order of Saint Augustine.^[4] On 20 September 1631, he was selected as Bishop of Córdoba and confirmed by Pope Urban VIII on 8 March 1632.^[1]^[4] In 1633, he was consecrated bishop by Hernando de Arias y Ugarte, Archbishop of Lima.^[4] He was installed on 27 June 1635.^[4] He served as Bishop of Córdoba until his death on 11 February 1662.^[4] While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of Bernardino de Cárdenas Ponce, Bishop of Paraguay (1641); and the principal co-consecrator of Pedro de Villagómez Vivanco, Bishop of Arequipa (1633).^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice) (1935). HIERARCHIA CATHOLICA MEDII ET RECENTIORIS AEVI Vol IV. Münster: Libraria Regensbergiana. p. 348. (in Latin)
^ "Diocese of Santiago del Estero" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved December 4, 2015
^ "Archdiocese of Córdoba" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. retrieved March 19, 2016
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Cheney, David M. "Bishop Melchor Maldonado y Saavedra, O.S.A." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved June 16, 2018. ^{[self-published]}