Juan José de Aycinena y Piñol

Juan José de Aycinena
Aycinena y Piñol as bishop
President of Pontificia Universidad de San Carlos Borromeo
In office 1825 – 1829
President	Manuel José Arce
Governor	Mariano de Aycinena y Piñol (1827-1829)
Chief Minister of Guatemala
In office March 14, 1842 – December 11, 1844
Governor	Mariano Rivera Paz
President of Pontificia Universidad de San Carlos Borromeo
In office 1840 – 1865
Governor	Mariano Rivera Paz
Personal details
Born	Juan José de Aycinena y Piñol (1792-08-29)29 August 1792 Guatemala City, Guatemala
Died	15 February 1865(1865-02-15) (aged 72) Guatemala City
Political party	Conservative
Alma mater	Pontificia Universidad de San Carlos
Religion	Roman Catholic

Juan José de Aycinena y Piñol (Guatemala City, August 29th of 1792 - ibidem, February 17th of 1865 ) was an ecclesiastical and intellectual conservative in Central America. He was President of the Pontifical University of San Carlos Borromeo from 1825-1829 and then of the Universidad Nacional from 1840 to 1865. Thinker criticized by liberal historians for his strong relationship with the conservative government of General Rafael Carrera and for eliminating the possibility of getting the Central American Union who the Liberals wanted. His participation in the government has been exhibited more objectively by research conducted between 1980 and 2010. Heir in 1814 of the noble title of III Marquess of Aycinena and bishop in partibus of Trajanopolis since 1859. He had a taste for law, oratory talent and wrote over twenty works.

Born in Guatemala, on August 29 of 1792 . From age 22 took over the House of Aycinena and then was ordained when he was 26 years old. He may have received special education in the narrow circle of his family through preceptors, because he did not attend classes in the Tridentine Seminary, although frequently attended the benches of the University, and might have followed the courses taught by Luis de Escoto, O.P.. Then he studied at the Pontifical University of San Carlos of Guatemala, graduating from high school in Instituta and Law in 1811 and 1813 respectively. Later he received his doctorate in 1821 .

As a priest was pastor of the Cathedral of Guatemala for four years, and became archbishop of attorney court. Obtained the Sagrario Parish in 1822 and, even though he had been prosecutor in the ecclesiastical curia for some years, took over as synodal judge Guatemala during the years 1824 to 1859 .

He participated in the independence events in Central America in 1821, along with his uncle Mariano de Aycinena y Piñol, who was named by Manuel José Arce as Governor of Guatemala in 1827. When the liberal Honduran General Francisco Morazán invaded Guatemala in 1829, he overthrew and expelled Mariano family, the families in connection with the Aycinenas and regular orders of the Catholic Church. Aycinena y Piñol went first to Panama and then to the United States. While in America, Aycinena y Piñol wrote a series of documents collected in the book Toro Amarillo -Yellow Bull-, with which harshly criticized the liberal government of the Federation of United Provinces of Central America, directed by Morazán. He probably conceived in the US the possibility of creating a confessional republic.