Historical Institute of the Province of Hispania Order of Preachers

The Order under Spanish Masters

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 Over its 800 years, the Order of Preachers has been governed by at least 17 Spanish Masters or sons of the Spanish provinces. This project, which is being carried out in collaboration with the Institutum Historicum Ordinis Praedicatorum, aims to build a comparative history of how their period of government and decisions crystallised in the Hispanic provinces and beyond.

For this purpose, a series of annual meetings with specialists in the history of the Order in these two geographical and historiographical realities has been planned, sharing, through the various Masters, a thematic and temporal axis.

Meetings held:

Projected meetings

  • II Meeting: Maestros españoles a finales de la Edad Moderna: un intento de visión global sobre su mandato, Madrid October 16th 2025.

13th Century

  • 1. 1207-1216-1221: Saint Dominic of Guzman, born on 1170 at Caleruega, Spain
  • 3. 1238-40: Saint Raymundo of Penyafort, from Barcelona, then Province of Spain.
  • 7. 1285-1291: Fr. Munio of Zamora, from the Province of Spain

14th Century

  • During the Great Western Schism and under the obedience of Avignon: 1394-97: Fr. Nicolas of Valladolid, Province of Spain

16th Century

  • 39. 1518-24: Fr. Garcia of Loaysa, from Talavera de la Reina, Toledo, Province of Spain
  • 44. 1542-44: Fr. Alberto of Las Casas (de Casaus), from Seville, Province of Betica

17th Century

  • 52. 1601-07: Fr. Jeronimo Xavierre, from Zaragoza, Province of Aragon
  • 58. Fr. Juan Tomas of Rocaberti, from Perelada in Catalonia, Province of Aragon

18th Century

  • 61. 1721-25: Fr. Agustin Pipia, from Seneghe in Sardinia, Province of Aragon
  • 62. 1725-47: Fr. Tomas Ripoll, from Tarragona, Province of Aragon
  • 64. 1756-77: Fr. Juan Tomas of Boxadors, from Barcelona, Province of Aragon
  • 65. 1777-98: Fr. Baltasar of Quiñones, from Noblejas (Toledo), Province of Spain

19th Century

  • 67. 1825-31: Fr. Joaquim Briz, from Zaragoza, Province of Aragon
  • 74. 1879-91: Fr. José María Larroca, from the Province of Spain

20th Century

  • 78. 1926-29: S. D. Buenaventura García de Paredes, from the Province of Our Lady of the Rosary
  • 80. 1946-54: Fr. Manuel Suarez, from the Province of Spain
  • 82. 1962-74: Fr. Aniceto Fernandez, from the Province of Spain