Fernando Núñez Sagredo (died 31 March 1639) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as

Bishop of Nicaragua A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance and administration of dioceses. The role ...

(1631–1639). ''(in Latin)''

Biography

Fernando Núñez Sagredo was ordained a priest in the Order of the Most Holy Trinity. On 3 December 1631, 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 ...

. On 8 July 1633, he was consecrated bishop by

Luis de Cañizares Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic ...

Bishop of Comayagua The Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa () (1916 established, successor to the Diocese of Comayagua, erected 1561) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Honduras. Until 2023, it was the only metropolitan see in ...

. He served as Bishop of Nicaragua until his death on 31 March 1639.

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* (for Chronology of Bishops) * (for Chronology of Bishops) 17th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Nicaragua Bishops appointed by Pope Urban VIII 1639 deaths Trinitarian bishops Roman Catholic bishops of León in Nicaragua {{Nicaragua-RC-bishop-stub