Francisco de Ribera was a Spanish Franciscan priest from Toledo, a Doctor of Theology, whom Pope Sixtus V appointed as bishop of Leighlin, Ireland, on 14 September 1587.M. Comerford, Collections Relating to the Dioceses of Kildare and Leighlin (Dublin, James Duffy & sons, ), pp. 59-60. Leighlin being under English control at this time, Ribera resided in the Irish College in Antwerp, where he built an infirmary. He died in Antwerp on 10 September 1604.E. B. Fryde, D. E. Greenway, S. Porter, I. Roy (eds.), Handbook of British Chronology, third edition (Cambridge University Press, 2003), p. 437.
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