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Luis Zapata de Cárdenas
Friar Luis Zapata de Cárdenas, O.F.M. Rec. (1515 – 24 February 1590) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Santafé de Bogotá, capital of the New Kingdom of Granada (1573–1590).[1] BiographyLuis Zapata de Cárdenas was born in Llerena, Spain, in 1515.[2] His father, Rodrigo de Cárdenas, was Comendador de Oliva in the Order of Santiago.[2] Zapata served in the armies of Charles V in the Holy Roman Empire and Flanders.[2] He rose to the ranks of maestre de campo and became a member of the Order of Santiago.[2] He left the military and became a friar in a Franciscan convent of San Ildefonso in Hornachos, which had recently been reconquered by Christian armies from Muslim rule.[2] He became Superior (guardián) over multiple monasteries in the same province.[2] In 1560, the Franciscan Order named Zapata General Commissary for Peru.[2] He arrived in South America in 1561 with fifty friars. He returned to Spain in 1565, serving as Provincial in the Franciscan province of San Miguel (Extremadura) between 1566 and 1572.[2] In 1569, Philip II named Zapata the first bishop of Cartagena de Indias, but Zapata declined the position.[2] On 8 November 1570 he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Pius V as Archbishop of Santafé en Nueva Granada.[1][3] In May 1571, he was consecrated bishop by Giovanni Battista Castagna, Archbishop of Rossano.[3] He arrived in Santafé in 1573, serving as Archbishop of Santafé en Nueva Granada until his death on 24 Feb 1590.[1][3] As archbishop, he published pro-indigenous statements and ordained mestizos.[4] While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of Dionisio de Santos, Bishop of Cartagena (1575).[3] References
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