Pedro Zambrano Ortiz


Pedro Zambrano Ortiz, O.F.M., was a Spanish Franciscan friar who was guardian of the Mission Nuestra Seora de los ngeles de Porcincula de los Pecos in the settlement of Pecos, in the Province of Santa Fe de Nuevo Mxico of New Spain, from no later than 1619 until the fall of 1621. He then served at Galisteo Pueblo, and was still in charge of the mission in 1632

Zambrano was born in the Canary Islands around 1586. As a young man, he moved to Spanish colony of New Spain, where he later became a Franciscan novice at the Convento Grande in Mexico City onOctober 1609, and took religious vows a year later.

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