Fernando Vellosillo Barrio (died 18 February 1587) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as
Bishop of Lugo
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The Catholic Diocese of Lugo is one of the five Roman Catholic sees within Galicia, in north-western Spain, and one of the four suffragans in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela. (1567–1587).
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Biography
On 13 January 1567, Fernando Vellosillo Barrio was appointed during the papacy of
Pope Pius V
Pope Pius V ( it, Pio V; 17 January 1504 – 1 May 1572), born Antonio Ghislieri (from 1518 called Michele Ghislieri, O.P.), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 8 January 1566 to his death in May 1572. He is v ...
as
Bishop of Lugo
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The Catholic Diocese of Lugo is one of the five Roman Catholic sees within Galicia, in north-western Spain, and one of the four suffragans in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela. .
He served as Bishop of Lugo until his death on 18 February 1587.
While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of
Juan de Sanclemente Torquemada,
Bishop of Orense (1579).
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1587 deaths
16th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Spain
Bishops appointed by Pope Pius V
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