Pedro Cerbuna

Pedro Cerbuna del Negro (27 February 1538 – 5 March 1597) was a Spanish monk, bishop of Tarazona and founder of the University of Zaragoza.

His parents were Juan Nadal Cerbuna, alguacil or sheriff of the Spanish Inquisition and bailiff of Fonz, and of Isabel del Negro y de Ejea.

[1] He studied at the universities of Huesca, Valencia, Lérida and Salamanca, where he gained his doctorate in theology in 1563.

There he founded a Jesuit college under the patronage of Vincent of Saragossa and a Conciliar Seminary of San Gaudioso.

He was also made apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Calahorra by pope Sixtus V.[2] His grave is in the Colegiata de Santa Maria la Mayor in Calatayud.