Tamarón Romeral, Pedro, -1768

Father Pedro Tomarón Romeral, a native of Spain, came to the Americas in the 1750s as chaplain to the bishop of Caracas. In 1758 he was made bishop of Durango (Guadiana), a position he occupied until his death in 1768.

Wenceslaus Linck, a Jesuit, whose expedition, one of the last before the Jesuit expulsion from New Spain in 1767, was designed to establish sites for missions to the north of San Francisco Borja, Linck's residence mission. The expedition resulted in the discovery of Velicata, later the site of the first Franciscan mission of the Californias, San Fernando, founded by Fray Junipero Serra in 1769.

From the description of Al rey nuestro senor Don Carlos Tercero ... ofrece como fructo de su obediencia, y pastoral ministerio esta demostracion del vastissimo obispado de Durango, el Doctor Don Pedro Tamaron obispo de aquella diocessis del consejo de S.M. [and] el viaje que se hizo en la provincia de California al norte en esta peninsula en el febrero de este ano de 1766, [ca. 1766-1767]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78092756

Father Pedro Tomarón Romeral, a native of Spain, came to the Americas in the 1750s as chaplain to the bishop of Caracas. In 1758 he was made bishop of Durango (Guadiana), a position he occupied until his death in 1768.

Wenceslaus Linck, a Jesuit, whose expedition, one of the last before the Jesuit expulsion from New Spain in 1767, was designed to establish sites for missions to the north of San Francisco Borja, Linck's residence mission. The expedition resulted in the discovery of Velicata, later the site of the first Franciscan mission of the Californias, San Fernando, founded by Fray Junipero Serra in 1769.

From the description of Al rey nuestro senor Don Carlos Tercero ... ofrece como fructo de su obediencia, y pastoral ministerio esta demostracion del vastissimo obispado de Durango, el Doctor Don Pedro Tamaron obispo de aquella diocessis del consejo de S.M. [and] el viaje que se hizo en la provincia de California al norte en esta peninsula en el febrero de este ano de 1766, [ca. 1766-1767]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702163708