Payo Enríquez de Rivera
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Payo Enríquez de Rivera y Manrique, O.E.S.A., was a Spanish Augustinian friar who served as the Bishop of Guatemala, Archbishop of Mexico and Viceroy of New Spain.
Portrait painted in 1673
Monastery of El Risco, Ávila, Spain
Archdiocese of Morelia
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The Archdiocese of Morelia is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in western central Mexico. It was erected on 11 August 1536 as the Diocese of Michoacán.
Payo Enríquez de Rivera
…priesthood, and he began the construction of the Hospital de San Pedro. In January 1668 Enríquez de Rivera was transferred by Pope Clement IX to the Diocese of Michoacán in New Spain, but while he was on the road to take up his new position, news reached him that he was to become, instead, the Archbishop of Mexico. He…
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