Alfonso de Castro

This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please help improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (April 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Alfonso de Castro, O.F.M., (1495 in Zamora, Spain – 3 February 1558 in Brussels, Belgium)^[1] known also as Alphonsus à Castro, was a Franciscan theologian and jurist. He belongs to the group of theologian-jurists known as the School of Salamanca (otherwise identified as Spanish Late Scholasticism), though he denied belonging to a specific school of thought and condemned many theologians who did.^[2] He was most well-known in the sixteenth century for his work Adversus omnes haereses, libri XIV, an encyclopedic treatise on ancient and modern heresies.