Juan de Arechederra
Juan de Arechederra Roman Catholicism | |
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Juan de Arechederra | |
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42nd Ferdinand VI of Spain | |
Preceded by | Gaspar de la Torre |
Succeeded by | Marquis of Brindisi and Ovando |
Juan de Arechederra,
Early life and activities
Little was known about Arechederra's early life. He was born to Spanish immigrant parents but was later sent to a convent in San Jacinto de Caracas, a city-colony at the Spanish colonial provinces of New Kingdom of Granada. In 1701, he joined the Dominican Order for the province of Santa Cruz, his hometown.
He went to Mexico to pursue a degree of doctor of theology at the Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico, afterwards a master's degree on theology.[1] By 1713, he joined a Dominican missionary to the Philippines. In the Philippines he held several posts such as being the vicar of a parish in Cavite, a professor of theology at the Colegio de San Juan de Letran and twice served as the Rector Magnificus of the University of Santo Tomas.
Inquisition and governor-general
When Arechederra came to the Philippines, one of his initial position was to become one of the four superintendent-commissaries appointed by the Holy Office of the Inquisition to assist the Inquisition in the islands. During his time, Filipino natives or Indios were exempted from the Inquisition. For example, when a Spanish mestizo named Jacinta de Jesús was to be charged, Arechederra acquitted her by proposing herself as an Indio.[2] In 1724, he accelerated the Inquisition charges filed against Antoine Guigue, a French missionary based in Guangdong convicted of Jansenism. He was later sentenced to be suspended from priestly actions and perform spiritual exercises until he appeased the Pope.[3]
In 1745, the Bishop of Nueva Segovia Manuel del Río died from office and Arechederra was elected to occupy this position. By July 1745, he assumed the diocese in full capacity while waiting for the Papal Bull proclaiming him as the new bishop. However,
Having heard of his acceptance as the bishop-elect of Nueva Segovia and his inauguration as the new governor-general, a letter coming from Madrid presented Arechederra to the
During his short reign as the governor-general, he alternatively ruled in his diocese in Nueva Segovia and the government in Manila.
Baptismal of Alimuddin I
On January 2, 1749, Arechederra welcomed the
On April 29, 1750, baptisms took place at
References
External links
- Father Juan de Arechederra, O.P. †
- Metropolitan Archdiocese of Nueva Segovia
- UST Rectors throughout the centuries
- Baquillas, José Barrado. Actas del II Congreso Internacional sobre los Dominicos y el Nuevo Mundo, Salamanca, 28 de marzo-1 de abril de 1989. Volume 6 of Los Dominicos y América, 1990.
- Blair, Emma H. and Alexander Robertson. The Philippine Islands, 1493–1898, Volume XXVIII, 1905. Reproduced by Gutenberg in 2008.
- Fernandez, Doreen. Palabas: essays on Philippine theater history, 1996.
- Irving, D. R. M. Colonial counterpoint: music in early modern Manila, 2010.
- Lea, Henry Charles. The Inquisition in the Spanish Dependencies: Sicily, Naples, Sardinia, Milan, the Canaries, Mexico, Peru, New Granada, 2010.
- Storch, Tanya. Religions and missionaries around the Pacific, 1500-1900, 2006.