Cristóbal de Aresti Martínez de Aguilar, O.S.B. (1578–1641) was a Catholic prelate who served as

Bishop of Buenos Aires The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Buenos Aires (''Archidioecesis Metropolitae Bonaerensis'') is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Argentina. It is a metropolitan archdiocese with 13 suffragan sees in ...

(1635–1641) and Bishop of Paraguay (1629–1635). ''(in Latin)''

Biography

Cristóbal de Aresti Martínez de Aguilar was born in

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in 1578 and ordained a priest in the

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on 10 October 1585. On 12 February 1629, he was appointed during the papacy of

Pope Urban VIII Pope Urban VIII (; ; baptised 5 April 1568 – 29 July 1644), born Maffeo Vincenzo Barberini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 August 1623 to his death, in July 1644. As pope, he expanded the papal terri ...

as Bishop of Paraguay. On 3 December 1635, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII as

. He served as Bishop of Buenos Aires until his death in 1641.

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