Víctor Damián Sáez

Víctor Damián Sáez Sánchez Mayor (1776–1839) was a Spanish priest and politician, canon of Sigüenza, of Toledo, bishop of Tortosa and private confessor of King Ferdinand VII.

In 1823, the King appointed Sáez as Secretary of State (prime minister) and he was the first prime minister to chair the newly created Council of Ministers in 1823, post he held briefly, from 19 August to 2 December of that year. He did so with such rigor that more moderate absolutists such as Carlos Martínez de Irujo, 1st Marquess of Casa Irujo, requested the King to dismiss Sáez in the name of the powers of the Holy Alliance, the members of which coincided in considering Sáez's increasing influence over the King the main impediment to calming the waters in the country.