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.
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