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Gaspar de Quiroga y Vela

Catholic official

Summary

Catholic official

Field	Value
type	cardinal
honorific_prefix	His Eminence
title	Cardinal, Archbishop of Toledo
Primate of Spain
image	El cardenal Gaspar Quiroga (Museo del Prado).jpg
caption	Gaspar de Quiroga y Vela
church	Roman Catholic
appointed	6 September 1577
ended	12 November 1594
predecessor	Bartolomé Carranza
successor	Albert of Austria
other_post	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Balbina (1578–94)
previous_post	Bishop of Cuenca (1571–77)
consecration	15 April 1572
consecrated_by	Diego de Espinosa
cardinal	15 December 1578
rank	Cardinal-Priest
created_cardinal_by	Pope Gregory XIII
birth_date	13 January 1512
birth_place	Madrigal de las Altas Torres, Spain
death_date	20 November 1594 (aged 82)
death_place	Madrid, Spain
coat_of_arms	Escudo de Gaspar de Quiroga y Vela.svg

Primate of Spain

**Gaspar de Quiroga y Vela **(13 January 1512 – 20 November 1594) was a prominent Spanish churchman who rose to become General Inquisitor of Spain, from 1573 to 1594, and Archbishop of Toledo from 1577 to 1594. He was named a Cardinal by Pope Gregory XIII in 1578. He was the nephew of the 1st Bishop of Michoacán in Mexico, Vasco de Quiroga (died 1565).

Biography

Born in Madrigal de las Altas Torres, he studied at the Colegio de San Salvador de Oviedo of the University of Salamanca, of which he was later a professor, and the Colegio Mayor Santa Cruz in Valladolid. He obtained a licentiate in canon law in 1537 and a doctorate in canon law in 1538. He was named vicar general and a canon of Toledo.

He went to Rome in 1554 as an auditor of the Roman Rota. While in Rome he befriended Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus. In 1559, he was sent by King Philip II as an envoy to Naples and to the Spanish-administered territories in the Italian peninsula.

He served as a member of the Spanish High Council of Justice since 1563 and as Bishop of Cuenca, (1561–77), being then promoted to Archbishop of Toledo, to replace Bartolomé de Carranza who had been under arrest in Spain and Rome for the last 17 years, charged with heresy. Quiroga was also active as President of the Council of Italy (1567–71; 1586–94), and became a member of the Spanish Council of State.

He was a patron in Toledo of the Greek-Spanish painter Doménikos Theotokópoulos, usually known as El Greco (1541–1614). It is claimed that Quiroga portrait is found in the face of Saint Augustine in the famous Greco painting The Burial of the Count of Orgaz.

Quiroga liberated from the Inquisition's prisons the mystical poet Fray Luis de León (1527–91), who had been imprisoned for over 4 years at Valladolid, from March 1572 until December 1576, for publishing, amongst other things, a Spanish translation of the Song of Solomon, both of his parents having Jewish ancestry albeit being himself an Augustinian friar expert in Greek, Latin and Hebrew.

Around 1584, Quiroga built at the other side of the River Tagus, in the area known as the "Cigarrales", a summer house now occupied by a hotel.

Episcopal succession

Episcopal succession of Gaspar de Quiroga y Vela

References

"The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of December 15, 1578".
[https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/10564/gaspar-de-quiroga-y-vela Real Academia de la Historia]
[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bquve.html "Gaspar Cardinal de Quiroga y Vela"] ''[[Catholic-Hierarchy.org]]''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved September 19, 2016

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