Vicente de Peraza

Vicente de Peraza was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as the second Bishop of Panamá.

Biography

He was born in 1489, as Guillén de Peraza in the town of Betancuria, on the island of Fuerteventura. Although according to other sources, in Seville.

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.
Vicente de Peraza was ordained a priest in the Order of Preachers. On December 5, 1520, Pope Leo X appointed him as the second Bishop of Panamá. On April 1, 1521, he was consecrated bishop by Francisco Bobadilla, Bishop of Salamanca with Paride de Grassis, Bishop of Pesaro as Co-Consecrator. In 1526, he resigned as Bishop of Panamá. He died in 1553.