Juan de Zumárraga, Spanish-Mexican archbishop (born 1468)

Juan de Zumárraga

15/16th-century Spanish Franciscan prelate; first bishop and Inquisitor of Mexico

Juan de Zumárraga, OFM was a Spanish Basque Franciscan prelate and the first Bishop of Mexico. He was also the region's first inquisitor. He wrote Doctrina breve, the first book published in the Western Hemisphere by a European, printed in Mexico City in 1539.