Jerónimo de Loayza González, O.P. (1498 – October 25, 1575) was a Spanish

Spanish people

The Spanish are citizens of the Kingdom of Spain. Within Spain, there are also a number of vigorous nationalisms and regionalisms, reflecting the country's complex history....

 Dominican

Dominican Order

The Order of Preachers , after the 15th century more commonly known as the Dominican Order or Dominicans, is a Catholic religious order founded by Saint Dominic and approved by Pope Honorius III on 22 December 1216 in France...

 missionary and the first Roman Catholic archbishop of Lima

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lima

The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lima is part of the Roman Catholic Church in Peru which enjoys full communion with the Holy See. The Archdiocese was founded as the Diocese of Lima on 14 May 1541. The diocese was raised to the level of a metropolitan archdiocese by Pope Paul III on ...

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Biography

Jerónimo de Loayza was born in 1498 in Trujillo, Spain

Spain

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. He was appointed the first bishop of Cartagena on December 5, 1537; he was consecrated on June 29, 1538. On May 13, 1541, he was appointed the first archbishop of Lima

Lima

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, Peru

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, assuming that position on February 12, 1546. He was, notably, an episcopal consecrator of Bartolomé de las Casas

Bartolomé de Las Casas

Bartolomé de las Casas O.P. was a 16th-century Spanish historian, social reformer and Dominican friar. He became the first resident Bishop of Chiapas, and the first officially appointed "Protector of the Indians"...

, as well as Juan Solano

Juan Solano

Juan Solano, O.P. was a Spanish Dominican missionary and the second Roman Catholic bishop of Cuzco, Peru.-Biography:Juan Solano was born in about 1504 in Archidona, a town in the province of Málaga, Spain. He studied at the Colegio de San Esteban of the University of Salamanca. It was there that...

. He died on October 25, 1575.