Manuel de Roda

Manuel de Roda y Arrieta (5 February 1708 – 30 August 1782) was a Spanish diplomat and politician.

Born in Zaragoza on 5 February 1708, he participated actively in the creation of the Royal Spanish Academy of History (1735–1738).

As a Jansenist and adviser to Charles III during the reformist era that produced the Esquilache Riots attributed to Jesuit agitation, Roda was instrumental in the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767 from Spain and Spanish overseas possessions in Europe, America and the Philippine Islands.

[1] The Portuguese expelled the Jesuits from all their domains earlier (circa 1759), under Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Count of Oeiras, 1st Marquis of Pombal.

The Society of Jesus as an Institution would be banned on July 21, 1773, by the Pope Clement XIV via the brief "Dominus ac Redemptor".