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Alfonso Clemente de Arostegui y Cañavate (Villanueva de la Jara, March 5, 1698-Madrid, October 2, 1774) was a Spanish bishop, writer, lawyer and diplomat.
He studied at the University of Salamanca and at the University of Alcalá de Henares. He worked for the Departments of Instituta and Decrees at the University Complutense; in Zaragoza's mayor's office; in Roman Rota; as an interim minister plenipotentiary of Spain in Rome; as an ambassador in Rome; at the Council of Castile; in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando; as a royal commissioner of the Holy Crusade; in the Council of State; and as a member of the House of Castile.
He bequeathed all his books to the College of Seminario de San Julián in Cuenca, also leaving two trusts to support librarians and their corresponding libraries, and two student scholarships.
Works
- Concordia patoralis super iure diocesano inter episcopos et praelatos inferiores, Alcalá de Henares, 1734.
- De historia ecclesiae hispaniensis excolenda exhortatio ad hispanos Roma, 1747.
- Historia de la ciudad de Osma y de la ereccion de su obispado, escrita en latin por D. Alfonso Clemente de Arostegui, manuscript.