Baltasar de Quiñones

Baltasar de Quiñones (died 1798) was the Master of the Order of Preachers from 1777 to 1798.

Baltasar de Quiñones

Biography

Baltasar de Quiñones was a native of Noblejas in the Province of Toledo, located in the ecclesiastical province of Spain.[1] He first came to prominence as a preacher at the court of Charles III of Spain.[1]

In 1777, the General Chapter of the Dominican Order elected him as their master.[2] He was master at the time of the French Revolution, with its concomitant anti-clericalism and the Dechristianisation of France during the French Revolution.[2] All religious houses in France, Belgium, Germany, and many in Italy were suppressed from roughly 1789 to 1850.[2] Quiñones remained strangely indifferent to the disasters befalling his order.[2] As such, he was deposed by Pope Pius VI in 1798 and exiled to La Quercia.[2]

He later returned to Spain,[2] and then moved on to Florence, where he died on 20 June 1798.[1]

References

1. Profile of Masters from the Dominican Order Website
2. Benedict M. Ashley, The Dominicans, ch. 7 Archived February 7, 2012, at the Wayback Machine

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Juan Tomás de Boxadors	Master of the Order of Preachers 1777–1798	Succeeded by Pio Giuseppe Gaddi