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CASTORENA Y URSUA, Juan Ignacio (cas-to-ray'-nah e oor-soo'-ah), Mexican bishop, born in Zacatecas in 1668; died in Merida, Yucatan, in 1733. He studied in the College of San Ildefonso, was graduated at the University of Mexico, went to Spain, and received the degree of theological doctor at Ávila.
On his return to the City of Mexico he was appointed canon of the cathedral and professor of Holy Scriptures, vicar-general of the convents of nuns, and also honorary chaplain and preacher to Charles II. He was made bishop of Yucatan in 1729, and his consecration took place in the City of Mexico in the following year.
Castorena may be called the first journalist of Mexico, as he really was the first that published a newspaper there in 1720. He left a large number of printed and manuscript works, all of them on religious subjects, his "Comentaria in Evangelicum Vatem Esaiam" being the most important.
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Edited Appletons Encyclopedia by John Looby, Copyright © 2001 VirtualologyTM