Antonio Tavira y Almazán, (Iznatoraf

Iznatoraf

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, province of Jaen, 30 September 1737 - Salamanca

Salamanca

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, January 1807). A member of the Royal Spanish Academy from 1775 to 1807. Notorious archeologist of visigothic remains, near Cabezo del Griego, described since then as Segobriga. With some clashes with the Spanish Inquisition, related to the regalist wishes of King Carlos IV of Spain to give to the Bishops jurisdiction on the annulement of marriages, he was also the Honorary Chaplain of King Charles III of Spain

Charles III of Spain

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 since 1772, aged 36. A Knight and a Prior of the Military Order of Santiago

Order of Santiago

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 in Uclés

Uclés

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, province of Cuenca, (1788–1789), Bishop of Canarias, (1791–1796), Bishop of Osma, (1796–1798), Bishop of Salamanca, (1798–1807).

He was very good friend of Minister Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos

Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos

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, suspicious both to the Spanish Inquisitors at the end of the 18th century of comptent and connivence with the French regalist, "constitutionalist" and "bonapartist" Bishop Henry Grégoire, Abbé Grégoire, (Vého

Vého

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, (Trois-Évêchés), near Lunéville

Lunéville

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, France, 4 December 1750 - Paris, 20 May 1831).He ordained as a Bishop of Salamanca, (perhaps), Catholic Bishop of Maximionopolis, Palestine

Palestine

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, to the Scottish Priest Alexander Cameron

Alexander Cameron

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, ( Braemar

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, Aberdeenshire

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, 28 July 1747 - Bishop of Maximionopolis, Palestine

Palestine

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 by Tavira 28 October 1798- Vicar Apostolic of Lowland District, around Edinburgh

Edinburgh

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, Scotland

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, Great Britain, 24 Aug 1805 - 20 Aug 1825 Retired - died 7 February 1828, aged 80).