Vicente de Peraza

Vicente de Peraza (died 1553) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as the second Bishop of Panamá (1520–1526).

[1][2][3][4] He was born in 1489, as Guillén de Peraza in the town of Betancuria, on the island of Fuerteventura.

He was the son of Pedro Fernández de Saavedra and Constanza Sarmiento, she in turn the daughter of the Lords of the Canary Islands, Diego García de Herrera and Inés Peraza.

[5] Vicente de Peraza was ordained a priest in the Order of Preachers.

[6] On December 5, 1520, Pope Leo X appointed him as the second Bishop of Panamá.