Agustín Dávila Padilla (1562 in Mexico City – 1604) was a Mexican Dominican, a writer and Archbishop of Santo Domingo.
As was typical of such a work, Dávila Padilla emphasized the virtues of fellow Dominicans, as well as their work among the indigenous.
He deals with the founder of the Mexican province, Fray Domingo de Betanzos and Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas, among others.
His work is an important source of early colonial Mesoamerican ethnohistory.
While not free from mistakes, it was a major chronicle of the Dominican Order and its missions in America up to the end of the sixteenth century.