Juan de Zumárraga
Spanish prelate
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Juan de Zumárraga, OFM was a Spanish Basque Franciscan prelate and the first Bishop of Mexico. He was also the region's first inquisitor. He wrote Doctrina breve, the first book published in the Western Hemisphere by a European, printed in Mexico... Wikipedia
Born: 1468, Durango, Spain
Died: June 3, 1548 (age 80 years), Mexico City, Mexico
Full name: Don Juan de Zumárraga y Arrazola
Place of burial: Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral, Mexico City, Mexico
Books: The Doctrina breve and Zumárraga and his family
Nationality: Spanish
See: Mexico
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Juan de Zumárraga, OFM (1468 – June 3, 1548) was a Spanish Basque Franciscan prelate and the first Bishop of Mexico. He was also the region's first inquisitor.
Born at Durango in the Basque provinces in 1468; died in Mexico, 3 June, 1548. He entered the Franciscan Order, and in 1527 was custodian of the convent of ...
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Juan De Zumarraga , ZUMÁRRAGA, JUAN DE First bishop and archbishop of Mexico; b. Tavira de Durango, Vizcaya, Spain, c. 1468; d. Mexico City, June 3, 1548.
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Juan de Zumárraga, in adulthood to become the Bishop of Mexico, was born about 1468 in Tavira de Durango, Vizcaya province, Spain.
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First Bishop of Mexico. A native of Durango in the Biscay province of the Basque country, Juan de Zumárraga entered the Franciscan Order and by 1527 was the ...