Francisco de Ribera

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Francisco de Ribera was a Spanish Franciscan priest from Toledo, a Doctor of Theology, whom Pope Sixtus V appointed as bishop of Leighlin, Ireland, on 14 September 1587.[1] Leighlin being under English control at this time, Ribera resided in the Irish College in Antwerp, where he built an infirmary.[1] He died in Antwerp on 10 September 1604.[2]

References

  1. 1.[1.2]M. Comerford, Collections Relating to the Dioceses of Kildare and Leighlin (Dublin, James Duffy & sons, [1883]), pp. 59-60.
  2. 2.E. B. Fryde, D. E. Greenway, S. Porter, I. Roy (eds.), Handbook of British Chronology, third edition (Cambridge University Press, 2003), p. 437.