Martín de León Cárdenas

Martín de León Cárdenas, O.S.A. (1584 – 15 November 1655) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Palermo (1650–1655), Bishop of Pozzuoli (1631–1650), and Bishop of Trivento (1630–1631).

Biography Martín de León Cárdenas was born in Archidona, Spain, and ordained a priest in the Order of Saint Augustine. On 13 May 1630, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII as Bishop of Trivento. Cardenas arranged for the novel's publication in 1621 under the nom de plume of Andrés de León, but it remained unpublished, and the manuscript was only rediscovered in 1965.

Episcopal succession While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of: Gaspar de Borja y Velasco, Archbishop of Seville (1630); Tommaso d'Ancora (Ariconi), Bishop of Mottola (1630); and Gil Carrillo de Albornoz, Archbishop of Taranto (1630).