Juan Bautista Valenzuela Velázquez (24 June 1574 – 2 February 1645) was a Spanish jurist who served on the Sacro regio consiglio [it] and Consiglio collaterale [it] of Naples, on the Council of Italy, on the Council of Castile and as president of the Royal Chancellery of Granada.
[2][3][4] Juan Valenzuela Velázquez was born in Cuenca, Spain on 24 June 1574.
[2][4] On 24 March 1642, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII as bishop of Salamanca.
[2][4] On 27 July 1642, he was consecrated bishop by Martín Carrillo Alderete, Archbishop of Granada, with Juan Queipo de Llano y Valdés, Bishop of Guadix, and Blas Tineo Palacios, titular bishop of Thermopylae, serving as co-consecrators.
[2] He served as bishop of Salamanca until his death on 2 February 1645.