Fernando Cardiñanos O.F.M. Obs. (born 29 May 1731 in

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– July 1794) was a

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clergyman and

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for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Comayagua. He was consecrated and appointed bishop in 1788. He died in July 1794, at the age of 63.

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