Diego Evelino Hurtado de Compostela
Roman Catholic bishop
About Diego Evelino Hurtado de Compostela
Lived 1638 – 1704 (aged 65–66). Diego Evelino Hurtado de Compostela was a Cuban catholic priest and catholic bishop.
Bishop Diego Evelino Hurtado Vélez (1638 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain - August 29, 1704 in Havana, Cuba) was the Bishop of Diocese of Santiago de Cuba (now the Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba). He was known as Bishop Diego Evelino Hurtado de Compostela.
On June 4, 1685, he was appointed Bishop of Santiago de Cuba by Pope Innocent XI and was ordained bishop on August 29, 1704, by Cardinal Savo Millini, Apostolic Nuncio to Spain. He donated his orchard in Havana for the building of Convent of Belén (later used as the Colegio de Belén). He died in Havana on August 29, 1704.
In 1687 he founded La Casa de Beneficencia y Maternidad de La Habana.
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Diego Evelino Hurtado de Compostela was born in 1638 in Santiago de Compostela.
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Diego Evelino Hurtado de Compostela died on 29 August 1704.
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Diego Evelino Hurtado de Compostela was a catholic priest and catholic bishop.
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Diego Evelino Hurtado de Compostela was Cuban.
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