Andrés de Oviedo
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Andrés de Oviedo (1518 - 29 June 1577), also known as Andre da Oviedo, was a Spanish
missionary and Patriarch of Ethiopia
.
Oviedo was born in
Society of Jesus, nine months after it was approved by Pope Paul III. In autumn of that year he travelled to Paris, where he studied theology, although his studies were interrupted by the war between France and Spain, so he continued studying in Louvain
, completing in 1544.
He was auxiliary of the Patriarch of Ethiopia
Catholic
community, where he died on 26 June 1577.
A cause for Oviedo's beatification was opened on 8 June 1630, and he was declared Servant of God.[1]
References
- ^ Index ac status causarum beatificationis servorum dei et canonizationis beatorum (in Latin). Typis polyglottis vaticanis. January 1953. p. 5.
- (in Latin) Konrad Eubel (1923). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi, vol. 3. Librariae Regensbergianae, Münster. ISBN 978-88-7026-053-3.
- (in Spanish) Ángel Santos Hernández (2001). Jesuitas y obispados: Los jesuitas obispos misioneros y los obispos jesuitas de la extinción, vol. 2. Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid. ISBN 84-89708-99-1.
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