ROCABERTI DE PERELADA, JUAN TOMÁS. - Archbishop, 58th Master General of the Dominicans, b. of a noble family at Perelada (Catalonia) ca. 1624, d. at Madrid on 13 June 1699.

He was professor of theology at the University of Valencia and provincial of Aragon in 1664. During his generalate he obtained the beatification and canonization of various religious of his Order, among them St. Rose of Lima. Archbishop of Valencia (1676), he was twice viceroy there, and in 1695 he held the office of inquisitor general of Spain.

He wrote: Alimento espiritual (Barcelona 1668); Teologia mistica (ibid. 1669); De Rom. Pontif. auctoritate (3 vols., Valencia 1691-94), a work against Gallicanism that was prohibited in France; Biblioth. max. pontif. (21 vols., Rome 1695-99), a collection of the most important writings of canonists and theologians, in support of the principles on the infallibility and superiority of the pope, set out in the preceding work.

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BIBL.: A. Lopez, s. v. in Biografia ecclesiastica, XXII, Madrid 1864, pp. 785-95; Hutter, IV, pp. 375-81; D. A. Mortier, Hist. des maîtres généraux de l'Ordre des Frères Prêcheurs, VII, Paris 1914, pp. 82-159.

Renata Orazi Ausenda

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