André Dias de Escobar ( la, Andreas Didaci de Escobar; 1348–1448) was a Portuguese

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theologian. Born at

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, Andreas de Escobar joined the Dominicans and then the Augustinians before becoming a Benedictine monk. He became doctor in theology at the

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in 1393. He became

bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo The Diocese of Ciudad Rodrigo ( la, Dioecesis Civitatensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese in Spain, located in the city of Ciudad Rodrigo in the ecclesiastical province of Valladolid.bishop of Ajaccio The Diocese of Ajaccio (Latin: ''Dioecesis Adiacensis''; French: ''Diocèse d'Ajaccio'') is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church in France.French Concordat of 1801, the diocese became a suffragan of the Rom ...

in 1422 and bishop of Megara in 1428.Ken Pennington
Medieval and Early Modern Jurists: A Bio-Bibliographical Listing: 1298-1500
Accessed 11 May 2013. He was one of the most widely printed authors of the late fifteenth century. Escobar served as a minor penitentiary in the

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of the Roman curia.

Works

* ''Lumen confessorum'' * ''Confessio minor seu Modus confitendi'' * ''Confessio maior'' * ''De decimis'' * ''Canones penitentiales''

References

1348 births 1448 deaths University of Vienna alumni Portuguese theologians Benedictine theologians 14th-century Portuguese people 15th-century Portuguese people People from Lisbon Bishops of Ciudad Rodrigo Bishops of Ajaccio {{Portugal-bio-stub