Don Juan Ortega y Montañés was a Roman Catholic bishop and colonial administrator in Guatemala and New Spain. He was successively bishop of Durango, of Guatemala and of Michoacán, and then archbishop of Mexico. He also served as interim viceroy of New Spain from February 27, 1696, to December 18, 1696, and again from November 4, 1701, to November 27, 1702.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Durango is a Metropolitan Archdiocese in Mexico. Based in the city of Durango, it is the metropolitan see for the suffragan dioceses of Gómez Palacio, Mazatlán and Torreón as well as the Territorial Prelature of El Salto.