Bartolomé Carranza

Bartholomew of Carranza (Spanish Bartolomé de Carranza, * 1503 in Miranda de Arga in Navarra, † May 2, 1576 ) was Archbishop of Toledo and is known as a victim of the Spanish Inquisition.

He studied in Alcalá de Henares, joined there in the Dominican Order and made himself as a professor of theology at Valladolid soon such a famous name that Charles V in 1546 sent him to the Tridentine church meeting and used to other important missions.

So he accompanied in 1554 Philip II on the bridal journey to England, was there confessor of Queen Mary, participated in the most zealous way to the re- implementation of Catholicism in England, and so won the confidence of Philip and at the same time the Archdiocese of Toledo, the richest pin of the kingdom.

Soon, however, he was suspicious of the Inquisition. Man wanted in his " Comentarios sobre el cate - machismo christiano " ( Antwerp. 1558 ) find Protestant tenets, also were accused him of Charles V on his deathbed instilled heretical thoughts, and Carranza was arrested in Valladolid in 1559. Due to its archiepiscopal dignity, he appealed to Rome, where he hoped to learn more lenient treatment; but only after eight years of hard imprisonment he was delivered by, and in Rome he had to languish in the dungeons of Castel Sant'Angelo another ten years before his sentence was passed. Finally acquitted, but punishable by five years of Impeachment, Carranza survived this turn of his fate only by a few days; He died on May 2, 1576th

When people Carranza was always in high veneration, and Gregory XIII. sat him even a monument. Other writings by him are "Summa consiliorum " ( Vened. 1546) and " De necessaria residentia episcopum " ( Vened. 1547)

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• Roman Catholic Bishop ( 16th Century)
• Inquisition
• University teachers (Valladolid )
• Dominican brother
• Spaniard
• Born in 1503
• Died in 1576
• Man