Vicente_de_Peraza Knowpia

Most Reverend

Vicente de Peraza
Most Reverend; Vicente de Peraza
Bishop of Panama
	Vicente de Peraza in a 16th century portrait.
Church	Catholic Church
Diocese	Diocese of Panama
In office	1520–1526
Predecessor	Juan de Quevedo Villegas
Successor	Martin de Bejar
Orders
Consecration	April 1, 1521; by Francisco Bobadilla
Personal details
Died	1553

Vicente de Peraza (died 1553) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as the second Bishop of Panamá (1520–1526).^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Biography edit

Vicente de Peraza was ordained a priest in the Order of Preachers.^[5] On December 5, 1520, Pope Leo X appointed him as the second Bishop of Panamá.^[1]^[5] On April 1, 1521, he was consecrated bishop by Francisco Bobadilla, Bishop of Salamanca with Paride de Grassis, Bishop of Pesaro as Co-Consecrator.^[5] In 1526, he resigned as Bishop of Panamá.^[1]^[5] He died in 1553.^[5]

^ ^a ^b ^c Eubel, Konrad (1923). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi. Vol. III (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. p. 268. (in Latin)
^ Actas del II Congreso Internacional sobre los Dominicos y el Nuevo Mundo, Salamanca, 28 de marzo-1 de abril de 1989 (Los Dominicos y America). Editorial San Esteban. 1990. pp. 521–523. ISBN 978-8487557088.
^ Serrano y Sanz, Manuel (1990). Relaciones históricas y geográficas de América central, Volume 8. p. 11.
^ Arzobispo de Panamá, Guillermo Rojas y Arrieta C.M. Resena Historica de los obispos que han ocupado la silla de Panamá desde su fundacion hasta nuestros dias Publisher: Escuela Tipográfica Salesiana (1929) | pp. 6–9
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Cheney, David M. "Bishop Vicente de Peraza (Pirez), O.P." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved June 16, 2018. ^{[self-published]}

Cheney, David M. "Archdiocese of Panamá". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved March 25, 2018. (for Chronology of Bishops) ^{[self-published]}
Chow, Gabriel. "Metropolitan Archdiocese of Panamá". GCatholic.org. Retrieved March 25, 2018. (for Chronology of Bishops) ^{[self-published]}