Juan de los Barrios

{{Infobox Christian leader

| type =

| honorific-prefix = Most Reverend

| name = Juan de los Barrios

| title = Archbishop of Santafé de Bogotá of the New Kingdom of Granada

| image = Fray_juan_de_los_barrios.jpg

| alt =

| caption =

| church = Catholic Church

| archdiocese = Archdiocese of Santafé de Bogotá of the New Kingdom of Granada

| diocese =

| see =

| term = 1564–1569

| predecessor = None

| successor = Luis Zapata de Cárdenas

| ordination =

| ordained_by =

| consecration =

| consecrated_by = Juan Martínez Silíceo

| rank =

| birth_date = 1496

| birth_place = Villa de Peloche, Spain

| death_date = February 12, 1569 (age 73)

| death_place =

| previous_post = Bishop of Paraguay (1547–1552)
Bishop of Santa Marta (1552–1564)

| motto =

| nationality = Spanish

}}

Friar Juan de los Barrios y Toledo, OFM (1496 – February 12, 1569) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as the first Archbishop of Santafé de Bogotá of the New Kingdom of Granada, (1564–1569),{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/hierarchiacathol03eube#page/196/mode/2up|first=Konrad|last=Eubel|title=Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi |volume=III|pages=196|date=1923|publisher=Libreria Regensbergiana|location=Münster|edition=second}} (in Latin)

Bishop of Santa Marta (1552–1564),{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/hierarchiacathol03eube#page/236/mode/2up|first=Konrad|last=Eubel|title=Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi |volume=III|pages=236|date=1923|publisher=Libreria Regensbergiana|location=Münster|edition=second}} (in Latin)

and the first Bishop of Paraguay (1547–1552).{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/hierarchiacathol03eube#page/196/mode/2up|first=Konrad|last=Eubel|title=Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi |volume=III|pages=197|date=1923|publisher=Libreria Regensbergiana|location=Münster|edition=second}} (in Latin)

Biography

Juan de los Barrios was born in Villa de Peloche, Spain and ordained a priest in the Order of Friars Minor.{{cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|title=Archbishop Juan de los Barrios, O.F.M. |website=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/blbar.html |access-date=March 25, 2018}} Wikipedia:SPS{{Cite web|last=Chow |first=Gabriel|title=Archbishop Juan de los Barrios, O.F.M.|website=GCatholic.org|url=http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/bogo0.htm#9921 |access-date=June 16, 2018}} Wikipedia:SPS

On July 1, 1547, Pope Paul III appointed him the first Bishop of Paraguay.

He was consecrated by Juan Martínez Silíceo, Archbishop of Toledo.

On April 2, 1552, he was appointed by Pope Julius III as Bishop of Santa Marta.

On March 22, 1564, Pope Pius IV appointed him the first Archbishop of Santafé en Nueva Granada.

He died on February 12, 1569.

While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of Juan de Simancas Simancas, Bishop of Cartagena and Pedro de Ágreda Sánchez Martín, Bishop of Coro.

References

External links and additional sources

{{cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|title=Archdiocese of Asunción|website=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dasun.html|access-date=March 25, 2018}} (for Chronology of Bishops) Wikipedia:SPS
{{Cite web|last=Chow |first=Gabriel|title=Metropolitan Archdiocese of Asunción (Paraguay)|website=GCatholic.org|url=http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/asun0.htm |access-date=March 25, 2018}} (for Chronology of Bishops) Wikipedia:SPS
{{Cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|title=Diocese of Santa Marta|website=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dsmat.html|access-date=March 25, 2018}} (for Chronology of Bishops) Wikipedia:SPS
{{Cite web|last=Chow |first=Gabriel|title=Metropolitan Diocese of Santa Marta (Colombia)|website=GCatholic.org|url=http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/zmarA.htm |access-date=March 25, 2018}} (for Chronology of Bishops) Wikipedia:SPS
{{cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|title=Archdiocese of Bogotá |website=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dbogo.html |access-date=March 25, 2018}} (for Chronology of Bishops) Wikipedia:SPS
{{Cite web|last=Chow |first=Gabriel|title=Metropolitan Archdiocese of Bogotá (Colombia)|website=GCatholic.org|url=http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/bogo0.htm |access-date=March 25, 2018}} (for Chronology of Bishops) Wikipedia:SPS