Cristóbal de Torres y Motones (27 December 1573 – 8 July 1654) was a Spanish-born prelate of the Catholic Church in New Spain。 A member of the Dominican Order, in 1635 he was appointed archbishop of the Archdiocese of Santafé en Nueva Granada (now the Archdiocese of Bogotá). There, he was one of the first bishops in New Spain to admit indigenous people to communion, and he later founded Del Rosario University in Bogotá.
Cristóbal de Torres y Motones (27 December 1573 – 8 July 1654) was a Spanish-born prelate of the Catholic Church in New Spain。 A member of the Dominican Order, in 1635 he was appointed archbishop of the Archdiocese of Santafé en Nueva Granada (now the Archdiocese of Bogotá). There, he was one of the first bishops in New Spain to admit indigenous people to communion, and he later founded Del Rosario University in Bogotá.
