Fray juan de zumarraga biography
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Zumárraga, Juan de
First bishop and archbishop of Mexico; b. Tavira de Durango, Vizcaya, Spain, c. ; d. Mexico City, June 3, Apparently while still young, he entered the Franciscan Order, taking the habit in the province of Concepción, of which he became provincial minister (&#x;23). He was appointed first bishop of Mexico on Dec. 12,
By express order of Charles V, Zumárraga, as bishop elect but without episcopal consecration, embarked for Mexico, where he arrived Dec. 6, He immediately began to organize his newly established, extensive diocese, whose poorly defined limits extended from Michoacán and Jalisco on the northwest, up to and including Guatemala on the south. The Franciscan and Dominican missionaries who worked zealously on the conversion of the natives were of invaluable assistance in this difficult task of organization. The spiritual needs of the conquistadors and Spanish colonists were entrusted to the secular clergy whose lives, functions, and sala
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Juan de Zumárraga
15/16th-century Spanish Franciscan prelate; first bishop and Inquisitor of Mexico
Juan de Zumárraga, OFM ( &#; June 3, ) was a Spanish BasqueFranciscanprelate and the first Bishop of Mexico. He was also the region's first inquisitor.[1] He wrote Doctrina breve, the first book published in the Western Hemisphere by a European, printed in Mexico City in [2]
Biography
[edit]Origins and arrival in New Spain
[edit]Zumárraga was born in or of a noble family, in Durango in the Biscay province in Spain. He entered the Franciscan Order, and in was custodian of the convent of Abrojo. Shortly afterwards he was appointed one of the judges of the court for the examination of witches in the Basque province. From his writings it would appear that he looked upon witches merely as women possessed of hallucinations.
By this time more detailed accounts of the importance of the conquest of Hernán Cortés began to be received, and on December 20, , Z
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Zumárraga, Juan de (c. –)
Juan de Zumárraga (b. ca. ; d. 3 June ), first bishop (–) and archbishop (–) of Mexico. Fray Juan dem Zumárraga was born in Durango, near Bilbao, Spain; his birthdate is unknown but he was said to have been over eighty at death. Impressed bygd Zumárraga's campaign against alleged Basque witches, Charles V appointed him bishop of Mexico City. Zumárraga arrived in Mexico in as bishop-elect and Protector of the Indians. Zumárraga went to Spain in to report to the emperor; he was consecrated as bishop there in In Zumárraga joined forces with Don Antonio de Mendoza, newly arrived first viceroy, to stabilize colonial rule and promote Indian education and Christianization. In they founded the Colegio de Santa Cruz, a Franciscan college for indigenous nobles. Zumárraga imported a printing press in and authored or sponsored a number of imprints, including Erasmian tracts. Zumárraga's thinking, typical of Spanish Franciscans, combined Renaissance humanism with mys