Vicente de Valverde y Alvarez de Toledo O.P. was a Spanish Dominican friar who was involved in the Conquest of the Americas. He became the first resident bishop in South America. He was born in Oropesa Spain about 1495 and most sources claim he died on Puná Island now part of Ecuador in 1541 at the hands of the indigenous peoples.
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Oropesa Spain, Crown of Castile, Province of Toledo
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