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Gaspar de Quiroga y Vela | |
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| Cardinal,Archbishop of Toledo Primate of Spain | |
.jpg) Gaspar de Quiroga y Vela | |
| Church | Roman Catholic |
| Appointed | 6 September 1577 |
| Term ended | 12 November 1594 |
| Predecessor | Bartolomé Carranza |
| Successor | Albert of Austria |
| Other post | Cardinal-Priest of Santa Balbina (1578–94) |
| Previous post | Bishop of Cuenca (1571–77) |
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| Consecration | 15 April 1572 by Diego de Espinosa |
| Created cardinal | 15 December 1578 byPope Gregory XIII |
| Rank | Cardinal-Priest |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 January 1512 Madrigal de las Altas Torres, Spain |
| Died | 20 November 1594 (aged 82) Madrid, Spain |
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Gaspar de Quiroga y Vela(13 January 1512 – 20 November 1594) was a prominent Spanish churchman who rose to becomeGeneral Inquisitor of Spain, from 1573 to 1594, andArchbishop of Toledo from 1577 to 1594. He was named aCardinal by PopeGregory XIII in 1578. He was the nephew of the 1st Bishop ofMichoacán inMexico,Vasco de Quiroga (died 1565).
Born inMadrigal de las Altas Torres, he studied at theColegio de San Salvador de Oviedo of theUniversity of Salamanca, of which he was later a professor, and theColegio Mayor Santa Cruz inValladolid. He obtained alicentiate in canon law in 1537 and adoctorate in canon law in 1538. He was namedvicar general and acanon of Toledo.[1]
He went toRome in 1554 as an auditor of theRoman Rota. While in Rome he befriendedIgnatius of Loyola, the founder of theSociety of Jesus. In 1559, he was sent by KingPhilip II as an envoy toNaples and to the Spanish-administered territories in the Italian peninsula.[1]
He served as a member of the Spanish High Council of Justice since 1563 and asBishop of Cuenca, (1561–77), being then promoted toArchbishop of Toledo, to replaceBartolomé de Carranza who had been under arrest in Spain andRome for the last 17 years, charged with heresy. Quiroga was also active as President of the Council of Italy (1567–71; 1586–94), and became a member of theSpanish Council of State.[2]
He was a patron in Toledo of the Greek-Spanish painterDoménikos Theotokópoulos, usually known asEl Greco (1541–1614). It is claimed[who?] that Quiroga portrait is found in the face of Saint Augustine in the famous Greco paintingThe Burial of the Count of Orgaz.
Quiroga liberated from the Inquisition's prisons the mystical poet FrayLuis de León (1527–91), who had been imprisoned for over 4 years atValladolid, from March 1572 until December 1576, for publishing, amongst other things, a Spanish translation of theSong of Solomon, both of his parents having Jewish ancestry albeit being himself anAugustinian friar expert in Greek, Latin and Hebrew.
Around 1584, Quiroga built at the other side of the River Tagus, in the area known as the "Cigarrales", a summer house now occupied by a hotel.
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While bishop, he was theprincipal consecrator of:[3]
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| Preceded by |  1561–1577 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | 1577–1594 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Grand Inquisitor of Spain 1573–1594 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by |  1578–1594 | Succeeded by |
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| Preceded by | Oldest living Member of the Sacred College 15 April 1591 - 12 November 1594 | Succeeded by |
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