Vidal Marín Fernández

Most Reverend

Vidal Marín Fernández
Bishop of Ceuta
ChurchCatholic Church
DioceseDiocese of Ceuta
In office1694–1709
PredecessorDiego Ibáñez de la Madrid y Bustamente
SuccessorSancho Antonio Belunza Corcuera
Orders
Consecration19 December 1694
by Jaime de Palafox y Cardona
Personal details
Born22 February 1653
Mora, Spain
Died10 March 1709
BuriedMadrid, later Ceuta

Vidal Marín Fernández (22 February 1653 – 10 March 1709) was a Spanish bishop who was Bishop of Ceuta from 1694, and later Grand Inquisitor of Spain in 1705, until his death in 1709.

Biography

Vidal Marín del Campo was born in Mora, Spain on 22 February 1653.[1] He served as master of Santo Domingo de la Calzada and then as Inquisitor of Salamanca. On 13 September 1694, he was named the Bishop of Ceuta during the papacy of Pope Innocent XII.[2] He was consecrated as bishop by Jaime de Palafox y Cardona on 19 December 1694. In 1705, Philip V of Spain named him Grand Inquisitor of Spain, the head of the Spanish Inquisition.[3] He died on 10 March 1709, and was initially buried in Madrid. His remains were transferred to Ceuta in 1714.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Ángel Fernández Collado (2000). Obispos de la Provincia de Toledo (1500-2000) (in Spanish). I.T. San Ildefonso. pp. 117–. ISBN 978-84-920769-7-0. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  2. ^ Eubel, Conrad (1913). Hierarchia catholica medii aevi, sive Summorum pontificum, S.R.E. cardinalium, ecclesiarum antistitum series ... e documentis tabularii praesertim vaticani collecta, digesta, edita. Robarts - University of Toronto. Monasterii Sumptibus et typis librariae Regensbergianae.
  3. ^ Juan Antonio Llorente; Léonard Gallois (1826). History of the Spanish Inquisition: Abridged from the Original Work of M. Llorente, Late Secretary of that Institution. G. C. Morgan, John P. Haven, and Gray and Bunce. pp. 224–. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
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Preceded by Bishop of Ceuta
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