Andrés Clemente de Torrecremata

Andrés Clemente de Torrecremata T.O.R. (also spelled Torquemada or Turrecremata; Croatian: Andrija Klement de Turrecremata) was a Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church who served as a titular bishop of Duvno from 1521. The date of the end of his episcopate and death is unknown.

Biography

De Torrecremata was born in Torquemada, Palencia. Before his episcopal appointment, de Torrecremata, a member of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis, was a guardian of the St. Mary the Mother of God friary and a theology professor in Córdoba.[1] Pope Leo X appointed de Torrecremata as the bishop of Duvno on 29 December 1520, with an order that he must relocate to the diocese, reside there and that he mustn't exercise his episcopal duties outside the diocese. The Pope, aware that the diocese was under the Ottoman occupation and that the bishop could not reside there, used the appointment to incentivise the resistance of the Christian populace.[2] For the same reason, he allowed de Torrecremata to continue to administer the friary of St. Mary and sustain himself from the friary's income up to 24 ducats.[2] He was consecrated on 14 January 1521 in Rome by Vincenzo de Andreis, the bishop emeritus of Otočac as the principal consecrator and Pietro de Andreis, the bishop of Otočac and Pietro Prisco Guglielmucci, the bishop of Lavello as the principal co-consecrators.[3] From 1520 to 1522, de Torrecremata served as an emissary of the bishop of Funchal for the area of eastern Portugal.[4]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Mandić 1936, p. 36.
  2. ^ a b Škegro 2002, p. 184.
  3. ^ Catholic Hierarchy.
  4. ^ Iriarte 1954, p. 244.

References

Books

  • Iriarte, Lázaro (1954). Manual de historia franciscana [Manual of the Franciscan history] (in Spanish). Madrid: Compañia Bibliografica Española-S.A.
  • Mandić, Dominik (1936). Duvanjska biskupija od XIV.–XVII. stoljeća [The Diocese of Duvno from 14th to 17th century] (in Croatian). Zagreb: Tisak nadbiskupske tiskare.
  • Škegro, Ante (2002). Na rubu opstanka: Duvanjska biskupija od utemeljenja do uključenja u Bosanski apostolski vikarijat [On the verge of existence: the Diocese of Duvno from its foundation till inclusion in the Vicarate of Bosnia] (in Croatian). Zagreb: Dom i svijet. ISBN 9536491850.

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Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Bishop of Duvno
1521–Unknown 		Succeeded by