Cristóbal de Torres

Dec 27, 1573 - Jul 8, 1654

Cristóbal de Torres y Motones, OP was a Spanish-born prelate of the Catholic Church in New Spain. A member of the Dominican Order, in 1635 he was appointed archbishop of the Archdiocese of Santafé en Nueva Granada. There, he was one of the first bishops in New Spain to admit indigenous people to communion, and he later founded Del Rosario University in Bogotá.
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