Francisco Diego Díaz de Quintanilla y de Hevía y Valdés


Francisco Diego Díaz de Quintanilla y de Hevía y Valdés, O.S.B. was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Antequera, Oaxaca and Bishop of Durango.

Biography

Francisco Diego Díaz de Quintanilla y de Hevía y Valdés was born in Oviedo, Spain on 4 October 1587 and ordained a priest in the Order of Saint Benedict.
On 8 August 1639, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII as Bishop of Durango.
On 8 January 1640, he was consecrated bishop by Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, Bishop of Tlaxcala, with Cristóbal Pérez Lazarraga y Maneli Viana, Bishop of Chiapas, and Mauro Diego de Tovar y Valle Maldonado, Bishop of Caracas, serving as co-consecrators.
On 14 May 1655, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Alexander VII as Bishop of Antequera, Oaxaca.
He served as Bishop of Antequera, Oaxaca until his death on 6 December 1656.
While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of Pedro de Barrientos Lomelin, Bishop of Durango ; and Juan de Montiel, Bishop of Santiago de Cuba.