Juan Damián López de Haro
Most Reverend Damián Lopez Prattes | |
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Bishop of Puerto | |
Church | Catholic Church |
Diocese | Diocese of Puerto Rico |
Predecessor | Juan Alonso de Solis y Mendoza |
Successor | Hernando de Lobo Castrillo |
Orders | |
Consecration | February 14, 1644 by García Gil Manrique |
Personal details | |
Born | September 27, 1581 |
Died | August 24, 1648 (age 66) San Juan, Puerto Rico |
Nationality | Spanish |
Juan Damián López de Haro,
Early years
López de Haro was born in
Bishop of Puerto Rico
López de Haro was appointed Bishop of Puerto Rico on February 9, 1643, confirmed on June 13, ordained as bishop by García Gil Manrique, Bishop of Barcelona on February 14, 1644, and installed upon his arrival to Puerto Rico on July 13, 1644.[1][2] Upon his arrival, López de Haro began to express his overall dislike with the conditions of the Colony of Puerto Rico at that time and convened a Synod.
In his final years as Bishop, López de Haro began visiting annexed regions of the diocese in what is now Venezuela.[4] He found that the churches were extremely poor. He considered that the church was not getting the proper share of tithes, and directed that they should be paid in the cathedral to avoid abuses.
Literature
During his tenure, López de Haro wrote extensively maintaining correspondence with numerous dignitaries. Of the most notable are
In his letters to Juan Dias de la Calle, López de Haro is seen expressing his dissatisfaction with colonial conditions of Puerto Rico, and his distaste of white settlers' chivalrous hypocrisy.[7]
López de Haro has also written some of the first recordings of
See also
- Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico
- Puerto Rican literature
- List of Latin American writers
References
- ^ a b Catholic Hierarchy.org: "Bishop Damián Lopez de Haro y Villarda, O.SS.T." retrieved August 2010
- ^ a b Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice) (1935). HIERARCHIA CATHOLICA MEDII ET RECENTIORIS AEVI Vol IV. Münster: Libraria Regensbergiana. p. 286. (in Latin)
- ^ Márquez R.: "Puerto Rican poetry: a selection from aboriginal to contemporary times" Page 22.
- ^ a b c Interamerican University (in Spanish)retrieved August 2010 Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Medrano Herrero 2004, pp. 8–9.
- ^ Medrano Herrero 2004, pp. 19.
- ^ a b Pio Herrero Medrano, Don Damián López de Haro and Don Diego de Torres Vargas, two figures of the Baroque Puerto Rico, San Juan, Ed Plaza Mayor, 1999.
- ^ topuertorico.org retrieved August 2010
External links and additional sources
- Cheney, David M. "Archdiocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico". [self-published]
- Chow, Gabriel. "Metropolitan Archdiocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico". GCatholic.org. Retrieved June 14, 2018. (for Chronology of Bishops) [self-published]
- Medrano Herrero, Pío (2004). "RETRATO ESPIRITUAL DE DAMIÁN LÓPEZ DE HARO EN LOS CUATRO ÚLTIMOS AÑOS DE SU VIDA". Universidad Interamericana Puerto Rico. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2012-09-06.