Francisco de Ribera

This article is about the Franciscan bishop of Leighlin. For the Jesuit theologian, see Francisco Ribera.

This article is about the Franciscan bishop of Leighlin. For the friar and salior, see Francisco de la Ribera.

Francisco de Ribera OFM
Diocese	Leighlin
See	St Laserian's Cathedral (held by Church of Ireland)
Appointed	14 September 1587
Predecessor	Thomas O'Fihelly
Successor	Luke Archer
Opposed to	Richard Meredith
Personal details
Died	10 September 1604 Antwerp, Duchy of Brabant, Habsburg Netherlands
Nationality	Castilian
Residence	Irish College, Antwerp

Francisco de Ribera was a Spanish Franciscan priest from Toledo, a Doctor of Theology, whom Pope Sixtus V appointed as bishop of Leighlin, Ireland, on 14 September 1587. ^[1] Leighlin being under English control at this time, Ribera resided in the Irish College in Antwerp, where he built an infirmary. ^[1] He died in Antwerp on 10 September 1604. ^[2]

References

1. M. Comerford, Collections Relating to the Dioceses of Kildare and Leighlin (Dublin, James Duffy & sons, [1883]), pp. 59-60.
2. E. B. Fryde, D. E. Greenway, S. Porter, I. Roy (eds.), Handbook of British Chronology, third edition (Cambridge University Press, 2003), p. 437.