Francisco Antonio de Lorenzana y Butrón was a Catholic Cardinal, who had also earlier served as Archbishop of Mexico.
El cardenal Francisco Antonio de Lorenzana
Grand Inquisitor
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Grand Inquisitor was the highest-ranked official of the Inquisition. The title usually refers to the inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition, in charge of appeals and cases of aristocratic importance, e
Francisco Antonio de Lorenzana
…clergy, over five hundred of whom he received into his own diocese. In 1789 he was created cardinal by Pius VI, and from 1794 to 1797 he held the post of Grand Inquisitor. In 1797 was appointed envoy extraordinary from Spain to the Holy See, in which capacity he supported the pope in the difficulties attendant on the…
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