Ferdinando de Rojas

{{Infobox Christian leader | type = Bishop | honorific-prefix = Most Reverend | name = Ferdinando de Rojas | title = Bishop of Vigevano | image = Monsignor_Ferdinando_De_Roxas.jpg | alt = | caption = Monsignor Ferdinando De Roxas | church = Catholic Church | archdiocese = | diocese = | see = | term = 1683–1685 | predecessor = Jean Caramuel y Lobkowitz | successor = Pier Marino Sormani  | ordination = 1 September 1675 | ordained_by = | consecration = 27 December 1683 | consecrated_by = Alessandro Crescenzi (cardinal) | cardinal = | rank =  | birth_date = 15 April 1650 | birth_place = Curiel, Spain | death_date = 30 December 1685 (age 35) | death_place = Vigevano, Italy | previous_post = | nationality = Spanish }}

'''Ferdinando de Rojas''' or '''Ferdinando de Roxas''' (15 April 1650 – 30 December 1685) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Vigevano (1683–1685).<ref name=HierarchiaV>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/hierarchiacathol05eubeuoft#page/414/mode/2up|last1=Ritzler|first1=Remigius|last2=Sefrin|first2=Pirminus|title=HIERARCHIA CATHOLICA MEDII ET RECENTIORIS AEVI Vol V|pages=415|date=1952|publisher=Messagero di S. Antonio|location=Patavii|ISBN=}} ''(in Latin)''</ref>

==Biography== Ferdinando de Rojas was born in Curiel, Spain and ordained a priest on 1 September 1675.<ref name=CathHierFerdRojas>{{cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|title=Bishop Ferdinando de Rojas (Roxas) |website=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/broxas.html |accessdate=June 16, 2018}} [[Wikipedia:SPS|{{sup|[''self-published'']}}]]</ref> On 7 April 1683, he was selected as Bishop of Vigevano and confirmed by Pope Innocent XI on 20 December 1683.<ref name=HierarchiaV /><ref name=CathHierFerdRojas /> On 27 December 1683, he was consecrated bishop by Alessandro Crescenzi (cardinal), Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prisca, with Pier Antonio Capobianco, Bishop of Lacedonia, and Costanzo Zani, Bishop of Imola, serving as co-consecrators.<ref name=CathHierFerdRojas /> He served as Bishop of Vigevano until his death on 30 December 1685.<ref name=HierarchiaV /><ref name=CathHierFerdRojas />

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==External links and additional sources== *{{cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|title=Diocese of Vigevano |website=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dvige.html |accessdate=June 16, 2018}} (for Chronology of Bishops) [[Wikipedia:SPS|{{sup|[''self-published'']}}]] *{{cite web|last=Chow |first=Gabriel|title=Diocese of Vigevano |website=GCatholic.org|url=http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/vige0.htm |accessdate=June 16, 2018}} (for Chronology of Bishops) [[Wikipedia:SPS|{{sup|[''self-published'']}}]]

{{s-start}} {{s-rel|ca}} {{succession box | title = Bishop of Vigevano | years = 1683–1685 | before = Jean Caramuel y Lobkowitz | after = Pier Marino Sormani}} {{s-end}}

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