Juan De Zumárraga
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 476 years ago |
Born | Durango |
Spain | |
Date of died | June 3,1548 |
Died | Mexico City |
Mexico | |
Full name | Don Juan de Zumárraga y Arrazola |
Nationality | Spanish |
Place of burial | Mexico |
Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral, Mexico City, Mexico | |
Books | Zumárraga and his family |
Job | Politician |
Date of birth | January 1,1468 |
See | Mexico |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 575246 |
Juan De Zumárraga Life story
Juan de Zumárraga, OFM was a Spanish Basque Franciscan prelate and the first Bishop of Mexico. He was also the region's first inquisitor. He wrote Doctrina breve, the first book published in the Western Hemisphere by a European, printed in Mexico City in 1539.