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Juan Valenzuela Velázquez

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Church
  
Catholic Church

Successor
  
Juan Ortiz de Zárate

Died
  
Salamanca, Spain

In office
  
1642–1645

Nationality
  
Spanish

Predecessor
  
Cristóbal de la Cámara y Murga

Consecration
  
27 July 1642 by Martín Carrillo Alderete

Diocese
  
Roman Catholic Diocese of Salamanca

Juan Valenzuela Velázquez (24 June 1574 – 2 February 1645) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Salamanca (1642–1645).

Biography

Juan Valenzuela Velázquez was born in Cuenca, Spain on 24 June 1574. On 24 March 1642, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII as Bishop of Salamanca. On 27 July 1642, he was consecrated bishop by Martín Carrillo Alderete, Archbishop of Granada, with Juan Queipo de Llano y Valdés, Bishop of Guadix, and Blas Tineo Palacios, Titular Bishop of Thermopylae, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Salamanca until his death on 2 February 1645.

References

Juan Valenzuela Velázquez Wikipedia