Juan Pérez Bocanegra

Juan Pérez de Bocanegra, TOSF (died 1645) was a Catholic priest and member of the Third Order of St. Francis, who was a musician, and specialist in the indigenous languages of colonial Peru.

[2]: 281  He served as examiner general for the native languages Quechua and Aymara for the Diocese of Cusco, and was for many years a parish priest in Andahuaylillas.

[1] He got painter Luis de Riaño to paint the ornate murals inside,[3] for which the church is sometimes called "the Sistine Chapel of America.

Jesuits favored loan words from Spanish, which were free of heterodox implications, while Bocanegra preferred to draw on the rich imagery of the Andean linguistic resources.

The Jesuit position became official at the Third Council of Lima (1582–83), but Pérez de Bocanegra continued his practice by avoiding literal translations and separating the Spanish and Quechua passages in his works.

Pérez de Bocanegra was a parish priest in this church in Andahuaylillas
Title page, Ritual formulario, e institucion de curas, para administrar a los naturales de este reyno, los santos sacramentos del baptismo, confirmacion, eucaristia, y viatico, penitencia, extremauncion, y matrimonio, : con aduertencias muy necessarias (Lima, 1631)