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Diego Dionisio de Peñalosa Briceño y Berdugo (1621–1687) was the Lima-born governor of Spanish New Mexico in 1661–1664 following his appointment to replace Bernardo López de Mendizábal in 1660.Peñalosa’s administration notable for its positive treatment of the Pueblo Indians and their religious practices earned him the enmity of the Roman Catholic fiars determined to Christianize the native population and exploit free Indian labor and he was declared a blasphemer and heretic by a Catholic tribunal.

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