The Most Reverend Payo Enríquez de Rivera y Manrique, O.E.S.A. |
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Archbishop of Mexico | |
Portrait painted in 1673
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Archdiocese | Archdiocese of Mexico |
Appointed | 17 September 1668 |
Term ended | 30 June 1681 |
Predecessor | Marcos Ramírez de Prado y Ovando, O.F.M. |
Successor | Francisco de Aguiar y Seijas y Ulloa |
Other posts | Bishop of Michoacán (1668); Bishop of Guatemala (1657–1668) |
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Consecration | September 1658 by Alonso de Briceño, O.F.M. |
Personal details | |
Born | 1622 Seville, Andalusia, Crown of Castile |
Died | April 8, 1684 , Sierra de Ávila, Ávila, Crown of Castile |
(aged 61–62)
Parents | Fernando Afán de Ribera and Leonor Manrique |
Payo Enríquez de Rivera | |
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Viceroy of New Spain | |
In office December 13, 1673 – November 30, 1680 |
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Monarch | King Charles II |
Preceded by | The Duke of Veragua |
Succeeded by | The Count of Paredes |
Payo Enríquez de Rivera y Manrique, O.E.S.A. (also Payo Enríquez Afán de Rivera y Manrique or Payo Afán Enríquez de Ribera Manrique de Lara), (1622 – 8 April 1684) was a Spanish Augustinian friar who served as the Bishop of Guatemala (1657–67), Archbishop of Mexico (1668–81) and Viceroy of New Spain (13 December 1673 – 30 November 1680).
Enríquez de Rivera was born in Seville, the illegitimate son of Fernando Afán de Ribera, duke of Alcalá de los Gazules and Leonor Manrique. He entered the Order of St. Augustine in Madrid. He graduated from the University of Osuna and then taught theology there and in Burgos, Valladolid and Alcalá. He came to know King Philip IV of Spain, who held him in high esteem. Enríquez was superior of various Augustinian monasteries in Castile.
On 9 July 1657, Enríquez de Rivera was appointed the Bishop of Guatemala in the Viceroyalty of Peru by Pope Alexander VII. He sailed to Caracas, where he was consecrated for his new post by the bishop of that city. In Guatemala he ordained the first Bethlehemites, a religious order recently founded in that colony by St. Peter of Saint Joseph Betancur, to advance to the priesthood, and he began the construction of the Hospital de San Pedro.