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Miguel Antonio de Benavides y Piedrola

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Church
  
Catholic Church

Predecessor
  
Antonio Sanz Lozano

Nationality
  
Spanish

In office
  
1681–1713

Successor
  
Antonio María Casiani

Died
  
Cartagena, Colombia

Diocese
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cartagena in Colombia

Miguel Antonio de Benavides y Piedrola (1643 – February 1713) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Cartagena (1681–1713).

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Biography

Miguel Antonio de Benavides y Piedrola was born in Jaén, Spain in 1643. On 3 March 1681, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent XI as Bishop of Cartagena. He served as Bishop of Cartagena until his death in February 1713.

Episcopal succession

While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of:

  • Diego Ladrón de Guevara, Bishop of Panamá (1689);
  • Ignacio de Urbina, Archbishop of Santafé en Nueva Granada (1690);

    • and the principal co-consecrator of:

  • Michele Maria Dentice, Bishop of Mottola (1697);
  • Filippo de Cordova (de' duchi di Suessa), Bishop of Guardialfiera (1697);
  • Giuseppe Rottario (Rovero), Bishop of Alba-Pompea (1697);
  • Giovanni Fontana, Bishop of Cesena (1697);
  • Giuseppe Antonio Bertodano, Bishop of Vercelli (1697);
  • Tomaso Giustiniani, Bishop of Chios (1700); and
  • Isidoro Bertrán Garcia, Archbishop of Tarragona (1712).

    • References

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