Ignacio de Urbina

Ignacio de Urbina, OSH (31 July 1632 – 9 April 1703) was a Spanish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church in the New Kingdom of Granada and Viceroyalty of New Spain . From 1689 until his death 1703, he served as Archbishop of Santafé de Bogotá. In 1701, he was appointed Bishop of Puebla de los Ángeles, but he declined to accept the role and remained in Santafé de Bogotá, where he died in 1703.

Biography Urbina was born on 31 July 1632 in Burgos, Spain, to Juan de Urbina Escribano and Francisca Ortiz de Zarate. He joined the Order of St. Jerome (Hieronymites), He took possession of the archdiocese on 26 September 1690. Due to poor health, he was unable to visit many parts of the archdiocese, so he appointed visitors to oversee these areas. In addition, he worked to improve religious discipline among the diocesan clergy and religious orders. He also helped restore the Bogotá Cathedral and installed in it a second organ. He was also the principal consecrator of two bishops during his episcopacy: Pedro Díaz de Cienfuegos in 1692, and Mateo Panduro y Villafaña, OCD in 1699. He died in Bogotá on 9 April 1703 at the age of 70.

Episcopal lineage Miguel Antonio de Benavides y Piedrola (1681) Ignacio de Urbina, OSH (1690)