Diego Evelino Hurtado de Compostela

Roman Catholic bishop

Diego Evelino Hurtado Vélez
Diocese	Diocese of Santiago de Cuba
Installed	1685
Term ended	1704
Predecessor	Baltasar de Figueroa
Successor	Jerónimo Nosti de Valdés
Personal details
Born	1638 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Died	August 29, 1704 Havana, Cuba
Nationality	Spanish
Denomination	Catholicism

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.^[1]

In 1687 he founded La Casa de Beneficencia y Maternidad de La Habana.

References

^ Cheney, David M. "Bishop Diego Evelino Hurtado de Compostela (Vélez)". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved June 16, 2018. ^{[self-published]}

External links and additional sources

Cheney, David M. "Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved June 16, 2018. (for Chronology of Bishops) ^{[self-published]}
Chow, Gabriel. "Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santiago". GCatholic.org. Retrieved June 16, 2018. (for Chronology of Bishops) ^{[self-published]}
Old Havana web article