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Juan de Quevedo ( :es:Vejorís, c. 1450 – December 24, 1519) was a Spanish
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priest and the first Bishop of Santa María de La Antigua del Darién in Panama (1513–1519). ''(in Latin)''Arzobispo de Panamá, Guillermo Rojas y Arrieta C.M. Resena Historica de los obispos que han ocupado la silla de Panamá desde su fundacion hasta nuestros dias Publisher: Escuela Tipográfica Salesiana (1929) , pp. 6–9


Biography

Juan de Quevedo was born in Vejorís,
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, Spain and ordained a priest in the
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. On September 9, 1513 - at the request of King Ferdinand, husband of Queen Isabella -
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appointed him Bishop of Santa María de La Antigua del DariénLeon, P., 1998, The Discovery and Conquest of Peru, Chronicles of the New World Encounter, edited and translated by Cook and Cook, Durham: Duke University Press, On January 29, 1514, he was consecrated by bishop by Diego de Deza,
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. He left for the Indies in 1514 along with Hernando de Luque on a fleet commanded by
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. Conflict between Quevedo and Arias Dávila soon ensued as Quevedo strongly protested against the cruel acts committed by the governor and his officers, not only against the Indians, but also against rivals, such as the beheading of Vasco Nuñez de Balboa, the discoverer of the
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.Catholic Encyclopedia: "Juan de Quevedo"
retrieved January 11, 2015
Counter charges were brought against Quevedo with
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accusing him of having violated a trust, accumulated wealth, and neglected the Indians, but the veracity of Las Casas' accusations has not been established. Quevedo returned to Spain in (1518) and presented two memorials to King
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. One was against Arias Dávila, and the other advocated restricting the powers of all governors in the New World for the better protection of the natives. When these documents were shown to Las Casas, in spite of differences between the two, he offered to countersign them. Bishop Quevedo soon fell sick and died at
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. In spite of Quevedo's record as a champion of the rights of Native Americans, his views were still coloured by his time and his missionary fervour. He regarded all the aborigines of America to be a race of men whom it would be impossible to instruct or improve unless they were collected in villages or missions and kept under continual supervision.


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* (for Chronology of Bishops) * (for Chronology of Bishops) {{DEFAULTSORT:Quevedo, Juan de 1450 births 1519 deaths Spanish Franciscans Spanish Roman Catholic bishops in North America 16th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Panama 15th-century Castilian Roman Catholic priests Roman Catholic bishops of Panamá