Antonio de Monroy was born in
Santiago de Querétaro,
Mexico and ordained a priest in the
Order of Preachers. and later represented Mexico at the
Dominican chapter of 1677 where he encouraged the
Rosary Confraternities. In 1677, he was appointed Master General of Order of Friars Preachers. The
probabilist controversy raged during his mastership. On 4 June 1685, he was appointed during the papacy of
Pope Innocent XI as
Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela. On 11 June 1685, he was consecrated bishop by
Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni,
Cardinal-Priest of
Santa Maria in Trastevere. In 1686, he resigned as Master General of Order of Friars Preachers. He served as Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela until his death on 7 November 1715. While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of
Vincenzo Ludovico Gotti,
Titular Patriarch of Jerusalem (1688). ==References==