Diego Carranza

Diego Carranza (born at Mexico, 1559; died at Tehuantepec, date unknown) was a Mexican Dominican missionary.

He entered the Dominican Order 12 May 1577, and was sent to Nejapa in Oaxaca after being ordained a priest. He was assigned to the mission among the Chontal people of the forest.

Carranza made efforts, partly successful, to settle them in hamlets, and erected hermitages for them for Christian worship. For twelve years he led an exposed life, and contracted leprosy. He must have died quite young, but the exact date is unknown. Before his death he erected a church for his wards in the village of Santa Maria Tequiztlan.

He composed, in the Chontal language, a "Doctrina cristiana", "Exercicios espirituales", and "Sermones". They remained in manuscript, and were later lost.