Diego de Landa

Most Reverend

Diego de Landa
Most Reverend; Diego de Landa
Bishop of Yucatán
Church	Catholic Church
Diocese	Diocese of Yucatán
Predecessor	Francisco de Toral
Successor	Gregorio de Montalvo Olivera
Orders
Consecration	1573; by Cristóbal Rojas Sandoval
Personal details
Born	November 12, 1524; Cifuentes, Alcarria, Spain
Died	April 29, 1579; Yucatán

Diego de Landa Calderón, O.F.M. (12 November 1524 – 29 April 1579) was a Spanish Franciscan bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Yucatán.^[1] He led a campaign against idolatry and human sacrifice.^[2] In doing so, he burned Maya manuscripts (codices) which contained knowledge of Maya religion and civilization, and the history of the American continent. Nonetheless, his work in documenting and researching the Maya was indispensable in achieving the current understanding of their culture, to the degree that one scholar asserted that "ninety-nine percent of what we today know of the Mayas, we know as the result either of what Landa has told us in the pages that follow, or have learned in the use and study of what he told".^[3]

^ Cheney, David M. "Bishop Diego de Landa, O.F.M." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved March 25, 2018.^{self-published}
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^ William Gates, Introduction to his translation of Diego De Landa, "Yucatan Before and After the Conquest"

[CathHierDiegoLanda-1] Cheney, David M. "Bishop Diego de Landa, O.F.M." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved March 25, 2018.^{self-published}

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[3] William Gates, Introduction to his translation of Diego De Landa, "Yucatan Before and After the Conquest"

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