Ángel de Maldonado

Most Reverend Angel de Maldonado
Bishop of Antequera
Church	Catholic Church
Diocese	Diocese of Antequera
In office	1700–1728
Predecessor	Manuel Plácido de Quirós de Porras
Successor	Francisco de Santiago y Calderón
Orders
Consecration	2 January 1701 by Francesco Acquaviva d'Aragona
Personal details
Born	1660 Ocaña, Spain
Died	17 April 1728 (age 68) Antequera, Oaxaca, México
Nationality	Spanish

Angel de Maldonado, O. Cist. (1660–1728) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Antequera (1700–1728).

Biography

Angel de Maldonado was born in Ocaña, Spain in 1660 and ordained a priest in the Cistercian Order. On 21 June 1700, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent XII as Bishop of Antequera. On 2 January 1701, he was consecrated bishop by Francesco Acquaviva d'Aragona, Titular Archbishop of Larissa in Thessalia, with Gregorio Solórzano Castillo, Bishop of Ávila, and Francisco Zapata Vera y Morales, Titular Bishop of Dara, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Antequera until his death on 17 April 1728.

While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of Juan Benito Garret y Arlovi, Bishop of Nicaragua (1710); and José Pérez de Lanciego Eguiluz y Mirafuentes, Archbishop of México (1714).

External links and additional sources

• Cheney, David M. "Archdiocese of Antequera, Oaxaca". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved March 25, 2018. (for Chronology of Bishops) ^{[self-published]}
• Chow, Gabriel. "Metropolitan Archdiocese of Antequera". GCatholic.org. Retrieved March 25, 2018. (for Chronology of Bishops) ^{[self-published]}