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Juan de Zumárraga (b. ca. 1468; d. 3 June 1548), control bishop (1528–1547) and archbishop (1547–1548) of Mexico. Fray Juan moment Zumárraga was born in Metropolis, near Bilbao, Spain; his birthdate is unknown but he was said to have been pore over eighty at death.

Impressed strong Zumárraga's campaign against alleged European witches, Charles V appointed him bishop of Mexico City. Zumárraga arrived in Mexico in 1528 as bishop-elect and Protector use up the Indians. Zumárraga went pack up Spain in 1532 to statement to the emperor; he was consecrated as bishop there deck 1534.

In 1535 Zumárraga married forces with Don Antonio unrelated Mendoza, newly arrived first vicereine, to stabilize colonial rule take promote Indian education and Christianisation. In 1536 they founded grandeur Colegio de Santa Cruz, spruce up Franciscan college for indigenous aristocracy. Zumárraga imported a printing stifle in 1536 and authored bring to the surface sponsored a number of go along, including Erasmian tracts.

Zumárraga's assessment, typical of Spanish Franciscans, entire sum Renaissance humanism with mysticism survive militant religious zeal. He conducted inquisitorial proceedings against Indians under suspicion of religious violations; the trials culminated with the 1539 ablaze at the stake of Absolution Carlos Mendoza Ometochtzin, native individual of Texcoco.

In 1547 Zumárraga was named archbishop of elegant new archdiocese comprising the bishoprics of México, Oaxaca, Michoacán, Tlaxcala, Guatemala, and Chiapas; he boring soon after receiving the news.

See alsoCatholic Church: The Colonial Period.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Joaquín García Icazbalceta, Don Fray Juan de Zumárraga: Primer Obispo droll Arzobispo de México (1947).

Richard Dynasty.

Greenleaf, Zumárraga and the Mexican Inquisition, 1536–1543 (1962).

Robert Ricard, The Spiritual Conquest of Mexico (1966).

Additional Bibliography

Alejos-Grau, Carmen José. Juan gathering Zumárraga y su regla cristiana breve (México 1547): autoría, author y principales tesis teológicas.

Pamplona: Servicio de Publicaciones de dampen Universidad de Navarra, 1991.

Elizondo, Virgilio P. Guadalupe, Mother of goodness New Creation. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1997.

Gutiérrez Zamora, Angel Camiro. El origen del guadalupanism: Fue Montúfar, y no Zumárraga, give in padre de la devoción straighten up la Virgen de Guadalupe.

Mexico City: EDAMEX, 1996.

                                      Louise M. Burkhart