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Juan Alonso y Ocón

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Church
  
Catholic Church

Nationality
  
Spanish

Successor
  
Gaspar de Villarroel

Consecration
  
1638

In office
  
1651-1656

Died
  
12 October 1656

Predecessor
  
Pedro de Oviedo Falconi

Archdiocese
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sucre

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Juan Alonso y Ocón (March 21, 1597 – October 12, 1656) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of La Plata o Charcas (1651-1656), Bishop of Cuzco (1642–1651), and Bishop of Yucatán (1638–1642).

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Biography

Juan Alonso y Ocón was born in Villa de Ocón, Spain. On June 14, 1638, he was selected by the King of Spain and confirmed by Pope Urban VIII as Bishop of Yucatán. He was consecrated bishop by Diego Castejón Fonseca, Bishop Emeritus of Lugo with Miguel Avellán, Auxiliary Bishop of Toledo, and Timoteo Pérez Vargas, Bishop of Ispahan, serving as co-consecrators. On November 3, 1642, he was selected by the King of Spain and confirmed on August 31, 1643 by Pope Urban VIII as Bishop of Cuzco. On April 2, 1651, he was selected by the King of Spain and confirmed by Pope Innocent X as Bishop of La Plata o Charcas where he served until his death on October 12, 1656.

Episcopal succession

While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of:

  • Mauro Diego de Tovar y Valle Maldonado, Bishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela (1639);

    • and the principal co-consecrator of

  • Diego Rueda Rico, Bishop of Tui (1639);
  • Francisco Diego Alarcón y Covarrubias, Bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo (1639);
  • Cesare Facchinetti, Apostolic Nuncio to Spain (1639);
  • Juan Coello Ribera y Sandoval, Bishop of Zamora (1639);
  • Mendo de Benavides, Bishop of Segovia (1639); and
  • Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, Bishop of Tlaxcala (1639).

    • References

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