Vidal Marín del Campo

Vidal Marín del Campo (22 February 1653 10 March 1709)[1] was a Spanish bishop who was Grand Inquisitor of Spain from 1705 to 1709.[2]

Biography

Vidal Marín del Campo was born in Mora, Spain in the middle of the seventeenth century. He served as master of Santo Domingo de la Calzada and then as Inquisitor of Salamanca before being named Bishop of Ceuta in 1694. In 1705, Philip V of Spain named him Grand Inquisitor of Spain, the head of the Spanish Inquisition. He died in 1709, and was initially buried in Madrid. His remains were transferred to Ceuta in 1714.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Ángel Fernández Collado (2000). Obispos de la Provincia de Toledo (1500-2000) (in Spanish). I.T. San Ildefonso. pp. 117–. ISBN 978-84-920769-7-0. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  2. Juan Antonio Llorente; Léonard Gallois (1826). History of the Spanish Inquisition: Abridged from the Original Work of M. Llorente, Late Secretary of that Institution. G. C. Morgan, John P. Haven, and Gray and Bunce. pp. 224–. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Baltasar de Mendoza y Sandoval
Grand Inquisitor of Spain
1705—1709
Succeeded by
Antonio Ibáñez de Riva Herrera


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