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Appendix 2 Bishops of Yucatan to 1714 Years in Office Name Order or Affiliation 1st 1519 Dr. D. Fr. Julián Garcés Dominican Governed from Puebla, where he resided.a 2nd 1542 D. Fray Juan de San Francisco Franciscan Never took office in Yucatan.b 3rd 1552 1555–57c D. Fr. Juan de la Puerta Franciscan Never took office.d 4th 1561–71 1560–71e D. Fr. Francisco Toral Franciscan First to take office and to reside in Yucatan.f 5th 1572–79 1571–79g D. Fr. Diego de Landa Franciscan 6th 1580–87 1581–86h D. Fr. Gregorio Montalvo Dominican 7th 1587–1602 1590–1602i D. Fr. Juan Izquierdo (Fr. Diego de Izquierdo)j Franciscan 8th 1603–8 D. Diego Vásquez de Mercado Secular 9th 1608–36 D. Fr. Gonzalo de Salazar Augustinian 10th 1638–42 D. Juan Alonso de Ocón Secular 11th 1643 D. Andrés Fernández Secular de Ipenza Never took office. 323 324 Bishops of Yucatan to 1714 12th 1644–49 D. Marcos Torres de Rueda Secular 13th 1651–52 D. Fr. Domingo Villa-Escusa Jeronymite Ramírez de Arellanok 14th 1656 Lorenzo de Horta Secular Never took office. 15th 1657–76 D. Luis de Cifuentes y Dominican Sotomayor 16th 1677–81 D. Juan Escalante Secular Turcios y Mendoza 17th 1682–95 D. Juan Cano Sandoval Secular Archbishop and Bishop 18th 1696–98 D. Fr. Antonio Arriaga Augustinian 19th 1700–14 D. Fr. Pedro Reyes Ríos Benedictine de la Madrid Source: From Carillo y Ancona [1967] 1982, 56–59, except where otherwise noted. Notes: a. Garcés arrived as the Tlaxcala bishop in 1527; his jurisdiction included Yucatan, although he never went there; he died in Central Mexico in 1542 (see Cuevas 1921–28, vol. 1, 238–333). b. Juan de San Francisco was appointed by royal order in 1552, while he was resident in New Spain; he renounced the office in 1553 (Lopetegui and Zubillaga 1965, 500; Scholes et al. 1938, 1). c. Scholes et al. (1938, 1) note that Juan de la Puerta was named bishop in 1555. Lopetegui and Zubillaga (1965, 501) say that various royal orders (cédulas reales) drawn up between 1555 and 1557 refer to a voyage of Juan de la Puerta from Spain to his new diocese in Yucatán, but he is known to have died in Seville in 1557, before taking office. d. Ibid. e. Scholes et al. (1938, 1) have Toral appointed by Phillip II in Spain in 1560. f. Ibid. g. Lopetegui and Zubillaga 1965, 500–9. h. Ibid. i. Ibid. j. Lopetegui and Zubillaga (1965, 509) name the seventh bishop as Diego de Izquierdo; they write that he accepted the bishopric in 1590, took office in Yucatán in 1591, and governed until he died in 1602. k. This is the last bishop mentioned by Lopez de Cogolludo ([1688] 1971) in his account (bk. 12, chap. 22). Years in Office Name Order or Affiliation Bishops of Yucatan to 1714 (continued) ...

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