Andrés de Oviedo

On 19 June 1541, while in Rome, he entered the Society of Jesus, nine months after it was approved by Pope Paul III.

He was auxiliary of the Patriarch of Ethiopia João Nunes Barreto in the apostolic mission which began in 1556 under the sponsorship by John III of Portugal and Ignatius of Loyola.

Though the mission's purpose - reconciliation with the Church of Rome - failed, Oviedo remained till the end of his life in Fremona (Ethiopia), at the service of the small Catholic community, where he died on 26 June 1577.

A cause for Oviedo's beatification was opened on 8 June 1630, and he was declared Servant of God.

This article about a Spanish Catholic bishop or archbishop is a stub.