Martín de León Cárdenas, O.S.A. (1585 – 15 November 1655) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as
Archbishop of Palermo
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(1630–1631). ''(in Latin)''
Biography
Martín de León Cárdenas was born in
Archidona
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, Spain in 1585 and ordained a priest in the Order of Saint Augustine.
On 13 May 1630, he was appointed during the papacy of
Pope Urban VIII
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as
Bishop of Trivento
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.
On 20 May 1630, he was
consecrated
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bishop by
Laudivio Zacchia
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Bishop of Pozzuoli
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Archbishop of Palermo
The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Palermo ( la, Archidioecesis Panormitana) was founded as the Diocese of Palermo in the first century and raised to the status of archdiocese in the 11th century.Sir Francis Drake's attack on Puerto Rico and the sacking of Cádiz. The Puerto Rico account includes a letter from one of the generals who fought Drake there. Cardenas arranged for the novel's publication in 1621 under the nom de plume of Andrés de León, but it remained unpublished, and the manuscript was only rediscovered in 1965.
Gaspar de Borja y Velasco
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,
Archbishop of Seville
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(1630);
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Tommaso d'Ancora
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Biography
Tommaso d'Ancora was born in S ...
Gil Carrillo de Albornoz
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