Vasco de Quiroga (1470/78 – 14 March 1565) was the first bishop of Michoacán, Mexico, and one of the judges (oidores) in the second Real Audiencia of Mexico...

by 4.3 km (2.7 mi) in October 2015 to no longer run above Avenida Vasco de Quiroga in Cuajimalpa. The railway line will be electrified and elevated with...

Universidad Vasco de Quiroga (UVAQ) is a Catholic institution of higher education located in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico. The Instituto de Estudios Superiores...

of the Quiroga lineage is that of Vasco De Quiroga born in the year 1218 during the reign of Ferdinand III of Castile, in the Valley of Quiroga. Branches...

in 1578. He was the nephew of the 1st Bishop of Michoacán, Mexico, Vasco de Quiroga, (1470 - 1565). He was educated as a Doctor in Theology and Law at...

Empire and later its ceremonial center. After the Spanish took over, Vasco de Quiroga worked to make Pátzcuaro the capital of the New Spain province of Michoacán...

viceroy Antonio de Mendoza in 1541. It became the political and ecclesiastical center of the province after the death of Vasco de Quiroga in 1565. Soon...

based on the life of Vasco de Quiroga, the first Bishop of Michoacán and known to the indigenous Purépecha of the region as 'Tata Vasco'. Considered one of...

his political opponents such as Hernán Cortés, Juan de Zumárraga and Vasco de Quiroga. Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán was born ca. 1485 in Guadalajara, Spain, to...

Villa de Quiroga, to honor the memory of bishop of Michoacan, Don Vasco de Quiroga. The total population in 2000 in the municipality of Quiroga is 23...