Cristóbal de Torres
Cristóbal de Torres, OP | |
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| Archbishop of Santafé en Nueva Granada | |
Cristóbal de Torres (1643), by Gaspar de Figueroa | |
| Archdiocese | Santafé en Nueva Granada |
| Appointed | 8 January 1635 |
| Term ended | 8 July 1654 |
| Predecessor | Bernardino de Almansa Carrión |
| Successor | Juan de Arguinao y Gutiérrez, OP |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | March 1590 |
| Consecration | 1635 by Luis Córdoba Ronquillo, O.SS.T |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 27 December 1573 |
| Died | 8 July 1654 (aged 80) Bogotá, Viceroyalty of Peru |
Cristóbal de Torres y Motones, OP (27 December 1573 – 8 July 1654) was a Spanish-born prelate of the Catholic Church in New Spain. A member of the Dominican Order, in 1635 he was appointed archbishop of the Archdiocese of Santafé en Nueva Granada (now the Archdiocese of Bogotá). There, he was one of the first bishops in New Spain to admit indigenous people to communion, and he later founded Del Rosario University in Bogotá.