Person
Vicente de Valverde
Spanish Dominican friar
Vicente de Valverde y Alvarez de Toledo, O.P., is a Spanish Dominican friar, who was involved in the Conquest of the Americas, later becoming the Bishop of Cuzco.
He becomes 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.