Juan Ruiz de Villarán (died 18 March 1591) 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. (1587–1591).
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Biography
On 22 June 1587, Juan Ruiz de Villarán was appointed during the papacy of
Pope Sixtus V
Pope Sixtus V ( it, Sisto V; 13 December 1521 – 27 August 1590), born Felice Piergentile, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 24 April 1585 to his death in August 1590. As a youth, he joined the Franciscan order ...
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 March 1591.
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1591 deaths
16th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Spain
Bishops appointed by Pope Sixtus V
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