Ambrosio Ignacio Spínola
Ambrosio Ignacio Spínola y Guzmán (born January 7, 1632 in Madrid , † May 24, 1684 in Seville ) was a Spanish bishop. He was Archbishop of Valencia from 1667 to 1668, Santiago de Compostela from 1668 and Seville from 1668 to 1684.
Life
Spínola was a grandson of the Spanish general Ambrosio Spinola (1571-1630) and a son of Diego Mexía Felípez de Guzmán , 1 ° marqués de Leganés. The Cardinal Agustin Spinola Basadone (1597-1649), from 1645 to 1649 also Archbishop of Seville, was his uncle.
Spínola was Bishop of Oviedo from 1665 to 1667 and became Archbishop of Valencia in 1667 , Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela in 1668 and Archbishop of Seville in the same year , which he remained until his death in 1684.
In 1637 he commissioned the Spanish painter Juan de Valdés Leal (1622–1694) to create a series of scenes from the life of his namesake, St. Ambrosius of Milan , painting for his private chapel in the archbishop's palace in Seville. During the war on the Iberian Peninsula , the French Marshal Soult took his headquarters in the palace in 1810 . The pictures disappeared and were considered lost until five of them reappeared on the New York art market in 1960 - two more appeared at an auction in Paris in 1981 .
Four of these paintings ( San Ambrosio nombrado gobernador de Milán, San Ambrosio consagrado obispo de Milán, San Ambrosio negando al emperador Teodosio la entrada al templo and San Ambrosio graduate al emperador Teodosio ) were acquired by the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid and are on display there today .
Web links
- Information about Spinola on the website of the Archdiocese of Valencia ( Memento of January 15, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
- Entry on Ambrosio Ignacio Spínola on catholic-hierarchy.org
- THE LIFE OF SAINT AMBROSE ( Memento from November 3, 2003 in the Internet Archive )
predecessor | Office | successor |
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Bernardo Caballero Paredes |
Bishop of Oviedo 1665–1667 |
Diego Sarmiento de Valladares |
Martín López de Ontiveros |
Archbishop of Valencia 1667–1668 |
Luis Alfonso de los Cameros |
Fernando Andrade Sotomayor |
Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela 1668 |
Pedro Carrillo y Acuña |
Antonio Paiño Seville |
Archbishop of Seville 1668–1684 |
Jaime de Palafox y Cardona |
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Spínola, Ambrosio Ignacio |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Spínola y Guzmán, Ambrosio Ignacio |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish bishop |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1632 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Madrid |
DATE OF DEATH | May 24, 1684 |
Place of death | Seville |