Francisco Pérez de Prado y Cuesta

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Pérez de Prado and the second or maternal family name is Cuesta.

Francisco Pérez de Prado y Cuesta (1677–1755) was Bishop of Teruel from 1732 to 1755 and Grand Inquisitor of Spain from 1746 to 1755.

Francisco Perez de Prado. General Inquisitor. In "Portraits of Spaniards" (ca.1831)

Biography

Francisco Pérez de Prado y Cuesta was born in Aranda de Duero on 8 December 1677.^[1] He was appointed Bishop of Teruel on 14 August 1732 and consecrated as a bishop on 7 December 1732.^[1] On 26 July 1746 Ferdinand VI of Spain appointed him Grand Inquisitor of Spain (and thus head of the Spanish Inquisition), and he received his commission on 22 August 1746.^[2] He died on 9 July 1755.^[1]