Education
He was educated as a Doctor in Theology and Law at the University of Salamanca.
archbishop cardinal priest Grand Inquisitor
He was educated as a Doctor in Theology and Law at the University of Salamanca.
He was named a Cardinal by Pope Gregory XIII in 1578. He was the nephew of the 1st Bishop of Michoacán, Mexico, Vasco de Quiroga, (1470 - 1565). He was sent by King Philip II as an envoy to Rome and to the Spanish-administered territories in the Italian peninsula.
He was a patron in Toledo of the Greek-Spanish painter Doménikos Theotokópoulos, usually known as El Greco, (1541 - resident in Toledo, Spain, since 1577 - Toledo, Spain, 1614).
lieutenant is claimed that Quiroga portrait is found in the face of Saint Augustine in the famous Greco painting The Burial of the Count of Orgaz. Around 1584, Quiroga built at the other side of the River Tagus, in the area known as the "Cigarrales", a summer house now occupied by a hotel.