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Diego Castejón Fonseca

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Church
  
Catholic Church

Successor
  
Pedro Manero

Died
  
Tarazona, Spain

In office
  
1643-1655

Nationality
  
Spanish

Predecessor
  
Baltasar Navarro Arroytia

Consecration
  
2 July 1634 by Melchor Soria Vera

Diocese
  
Roman Catholic Diocese of Tarazona

Diego Castejón Fonseca (1580 – 19 February, 1655) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Tarazona (1643-1655) and Bishop of Lugo (1634-1636).

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Biography

Diego Castejón Fonseca was born in Madrid, Spain in 1580. On 9 January 1634, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII as Bishop of Lugo. On 2 July 1634, he was consecrated bishop by Melchor Soria Vera, Titular Bishop of Troas, with Miguel Avellán, Titular Bishop of Siriensis, and Timoteo Pérez Vargas, Bishop of Ispahan, serving as co-consecrators. On 1 May 1636, he resigned as Bishop of Lugo. On 28 March 1643, he was selected by the King of Spain and confirmed on 23 May 1644 by Pope Urban VIII as Bishop of Tarazona. He served as Bishop of Tarazona until his death on 19 February 1655.

Episcopal succession

While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of:

  • Juan Alonso y Ocón, Bishop of Yucatán (1638);
  • Francisco Diego Alarcón y Covarrubias, Bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo (1639);
  • Cesare Facchinetti, Titular Archbishop of Tamiathis (1639);
  • Juan Coello Ribera y Sandoval, Bishop of Zamora (1639); and
  • Hernando de Ramírez y Sánchez, Bishop of Panamá (1642).

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