Grand Inquisitor
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Grand Inquisitor (Latin: Inquisitor Generalis, lit. Inquisitor General) is the lead official of an Inquisition. The most famous Inquisitor General is the Spanish Dominican Tomás de Torquemada, who spearheaded the Spanish Inquisition.
[edit] List of Spanish Grand Inquisitors[1]
[edit] Separation of Inquisitions of Castile and Aragon
[edit] Castile
[edit] Aragon
[edit] Reunification of the Inquisitions
| From |
To |
Grand Inquisitor |
Other positions held |
| 1517 |
1523 |
Adrian of Utrecht |
Cardinal priest of Ss. Giovanni e Paolo, Bishop of Tortosa |
| 1523 |
1538 |
Alonso Manrique de Lara |
Bishop of Badajoz, Archbishop of Seville, Cardinal |
| 1539 |
1545 |
Juan Pardo de Tavera |
Archbishop of Toledo |
| 1546 |
1546 |
García de Loaysa |
Archbishop of Seville |
| 1547 |
1566 |
Fernando de Valdés y Salas |
|
| 1566 |
1572 |
Diego de Espinosa |
Bishop of Sigüenza, bishop of Cuenca |
| 1572 |
1572 |
Pedro Ponce de León |
Bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo, bishop of Plasencia |
| 1573 |
1594 |
Gaspar de Quiroga y Vela |
Archbishop of Toledo |
| 1595 |
1595 |
Jerónimo Manrique de Lara |
Bishop of Cartagena, bishop of Ávila |
| 1596 |
1599 |
Pedro de Portocarrero |
Bishop of Calahorra, bishop of Cuenca |
| 1599 |
1602 |
Fernando Niño de Guevara |
Archbishop of Seville |
| 1602 |
1602 |
Juan de Zúñiga Flores |
Bishop of Cartagena |
| 1603 |
1608 |
Juan Bautista de Acevedo |
Bishop of Valladolid and Patriarch of the Indias |
| 1608 |
1618 |
Bernardo de Sandoval y Rojas |
Archbishop of Toledo |
| 1619 |
1621 |
Luis de Aliaga Martínez |
|
| 1622 |
1626 |
Andrés Pacheco |
Bishop of Cuenca and Patriarch of the Indias |
| 1627 |
1632 |
Antonio de Zapata Cisneros |
Archbishop of Burgos |
| 1632 |
1643 |
Antonio de Sotomayor |
Prior of Santo Domingo |
| 1643 |
1665 |
Diego de Arce y Reinoso |
Bishop of Tuy, bishop of Avila, bishop of Palencia |
| 1665 |
1665 |
Pascual de Aragón |
Archbishop of Toledo |
| 1666 |
1669 |
Juan Everardo Nithard |
|
| 1669 |
1695 |
Diego Sarmiento de Valladares |
Bishop of Oviedo, bishop of Plasencia |
| 1695 |
1699 |
Juan Tomás de Rocaberti |
Prior of Santo Domingo and archbishop of Valencia |
| 1699 |
1699 |
Alonso Fernández de Córdoba y Aguilar |
|
| 1699 |
1705 |
Baltasar de Mendoza y Sandoval |
Bishop of Segovia |
| 1705 |
1709 |
Vidal Marín del Campo |
Archbishop of Burgos |
| 1709 |
1710 |
Antonio Ibáñez de Riva Herrera |
Archbishop of Zaragoza, archbishop of Toledo |
| 1711 |
1716 |
Francesco del Giudice |
Archbishop of Monreale |
| 1715 |
1715 |
Felipe Antonio Gil de Taboada |
Commissioned as Grand Inquisitor but did not serve. |
| 1717 |
1717 |
Josef de Molines |
Proclaimed in Rome, but detained by Austrians and died without serving. |
| 1718 |
1718 |
Felipe de Arcemendi |
Died without serving. |
| 1720 |
1720 |
Diego de Astorga y Céspedes |
Archbishop of Toledo |
| 1720 |
1733 |
Juan de Camargo y Angulo |
Bishop of Pamplona |
| 1733 |
1740 |
Andrés de Orbe y Larreategui |
Archbishop of Valencia |
| 1742 |
1746 |
Manuel Isidro Orozco Manrique de Lara |
Archbishop of Santiago |
| 1746 |
1755 |
Francisco Pérez de Prado |
Bishop of Teruel |
| 1755 |
1774 |
Manuel Quintano Bonifaz |
Titular Archbishop of Farsala |
| 1775 |
1783 |
Felipe Beltrán Serrano |
Bishop of Salamanca |
| 1784 |
1793 |
Agustín Rubin de Ceballos |
Bishop of Jaén |
| 1793 |
1794 |
Manuel Abad y Lasierra |
Titular Archbishop of Selymbria |
| 1794 |
1797 |
Francisco Antonio Lorenzana y Butrón |
Archbishop of Toledo |
| 1797 |
1808 |
Ramón José de Arce y Rebollar |
Archbishop of Burgos |
| 1808 |
1814 |
Abolition of the Inquisition |
|
| 1814 |
1818 |
Francisco Javier Mier Campillo |
Bishop of Almería |
| 1818 |
1820 |
Gerónimo Castillón y Salas |
Bishop of Tarazona |
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ Appendix 2 to Henry Charles Lea's A History of the Inquisition of Spain
