Diego Evelino Hurtado de Compostela


Bishop Diego Evelino Hurtado Vélez was the Bishop of Diocese of Santiago de Cuba. He was known as Bishop Diego Evelino Hurtado de Compostela.
On June 4, 1685 he was appointed Bishop of Santiago de Cuba by Pope Innocent XI and was ordained bishop on August 29, 1704 by Cardinal Savo Millini, Apostolic Nuncio to Spain. He donated his orchard in Havana for the building of Convent of Belén. He died in Havana on August 29, 1704.
In 1687 he founded La Casa de Beneficencia y Maternidad de La Habana.