Melchor Maldonado y Saavedra

{{Expand Spanish|topic=bio|Melchor Maldonado y Saavedra|date=March 2017}}

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| type = Bishop

| honorific-prefix = Most Reverend

| name = Melchor Maldonado y Saavedra

| title = Bishop of Córdoba

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| church = Catholic Church

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| diocese = Diocese of Córdoba

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| term = 1635–1662

| predecessor = Tomás de la Torre Gibaja

| successor = Francisco de Borja (bishop)

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| consecration = 1633

| consecrated_by = Hernando de Arias y Ugarte

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| birth_date = 1588

| birth_place = Río de la Hacha

| death_date = 11 February 1662 (age 74)

| death_place = Córdoba, Argentina

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Melchor Maldonado y Saavedra, O.S.A. (1588–1662) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Córdoba (1635–1662).{{cite book|url=http://sul-derivatives.stanford.edu/derivative?CSNID=00002719&mediaType=application/pdf|last1=Gauchat|first1=Patritius (Patrice)|title=HIERARCHIA CATHOLICA MEDII ET RECENTIORIS AEVI Vol IV|pages=348|date=1935|publisher=Libraria Regensbergiana|location=Münster|isbn=}} (in Latin)[http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/ztia7.htm "Diocese of Santiago del Estero"] GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved December 4, 2015[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dcrdb.html "Archdiocese of Córdoba"] Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. retrieved March 19, 2016