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Domingo de Oña

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Church
  
Catholic Church

Predecessor
  
Giovanni de Gantes

Died
  
Gaeta, Italy

In office
  
1605–1626

Successor
  
Jacinto del Cerro

Consecration
  
9 December 1601 by Domenico Ginnasi

Diocese
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gaeta

Domingo de Oña, O. de M. or Pedro de Oña (1560 – 13 October 1626) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Gaeta (1605–1626), and Bishop of Coro (1601–1605).

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Biography

Domingo de Oña was born in Burgos, Spain in 1560 and ordained a priest in the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy. On 27 August 1601, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Clement VIII as Bishop of Coro. On 9 December 1601, he was consecrated bishop by Domenico Ginnasi, Archbishop of Manfredonia. On 27 June 1605, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Paul V as Bishop of Gaeta. He served as Bishop of Gaeta until his death on 13 October 1626.

Episcopal succession

While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of:

  • Luis Fernández de Córdoba, Bishop of Salamanca (1603);
  • Giovanni Falces, Archbishop of Brindisi (1605);
  • Fernando Acevedo González, Bishop of Osma (1610);
  • Nicola Antonio Spinelli, Bishop of Alessano (1612); and
  • Juan Torres de Osorio, Bishop of Siracusa (1613).

    • References

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