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Manuel Abad y Queipo

Bishop-elect

DioceseMichoacán, México

Installed 1810 (not confirmed)

Term ended 1822

Predecessor Marcos de Moriana y Zafrilla

Successor Juan Cayetano Gómez de Portugal y Solís

Personal details

Born 26 August 1751

Villarpedre, Asturias

Died 15 September 1825 (aged 74)

Toledo, Spain

Nationality Spanish

Denomination Roman Catholic

Manuel Abad y Queipo (26 August 1751 – 15 September 1825) was a Spanish Roman Catholic Bishop of
Michoacán in the Viceroyalty of New Spain at the time of the Mexican War of Independence. He was "an
acute social commentator of late colonial Mexico, ... an exemplification of the enlightened clergyman".
[1]

Education and early career

Manuel Abad y Queipo was born out of wedlock to an Asturian nobleman on 26 August 1751 in Santa
Maria de Villarpedre.[2][3] He obtained his baccalaureate in law and canon law from the University of
Salamanca. Thereafter he went to Guatemala with Bishop Monroy. In Guatemala he was ordained a
priest. Beginning in 1784 he resided in Valladolid (now Morelia), where Bishop Antonio San Miguel made
him a judge in a canon law court. In that position he gained considerable knowledge about church
wealth in terms of capital and credit. In 1805 he obtained a doctorate in canon law from the University
of Guadalajara. In 1810 he was nominated as Bishop-elect of Michoacan, but was never confirmed in the
post.[4] On the death of Bishop San Miguel, the Council of the Indies named him canon of the cathedral
of Valladolid, a position which he held until 1815.

In 1807, he traveled to Spain to seek his habilitation, since his status as a child born out of wedlock
prohibited his promotion to the higher levels of the ecclesiastical hierarchy. He returned to New Spain in
the position of vicar general. In 1810, the Regency (the Spanish government fighting the French
invasion) named him bishop-elect of Michoacán. He took over the diocese before the arrival of the
pontifical bull confirming his position. The pope did not approve his nomination, and thus the bull never
arrived.[citation needed]