Tomás Carbonell (bishop)

Baltasar Tomás Carbonell y Sánchez, O.P. (6 January 1621 – 5 April 1692)^[1][2][3] was a Spanish friar of the Dominican Order. He served as royal confessor to King Charles II of Spain twice: from 1676 to 1678^[4] and from 1682 to 1686.^[1][5] He was also the Bishop of Sigüenza from 1677 until his death in 1692.^[2][3]

The Most Reverend Tomás Carbonell O.P.
Bishop of Sigüenza
Church	Roman Catholic
In office	1677–1692
Predecessor	Pedro de Godoy
Successor	Juan Grande Santos de San Pedro
Orders
Consecration	26 September 1677
Personal details
Born	(1621-01-06)6 January 1621 Madrid, Spain
Died	5 April 1692(1692-04-05) (aged 71)

See also

• Catholic Church in Spain

References

1. Martínez Peñas, Leandro (2007). El confesor del rey en el Antiguo Régimen (in Spanish). Madrid: Editorial Complutense. p. 1013. ISBN 9788474918519.
2. Reluz, Thomas (1695). Vida, y virtudes del illustrísimo señor don fray Thomas Carbonel, obispo, que fue de Sigüenza, de la sagrada orden de nuestro padre Sancto Domingo (in Spanish). Madrid: La viuda de D. Francisco Nieto. pp. 2 and 420–421.
3. Cheney, David M. (2015-11-11). "Bishop Baltasar Tomás Carbonell y Sánchez". Catholic Hierarchy. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
4. Martínez Peñas, Leandro (2007). El confesor del rey en el Antiguo Régimen (in Spanish). Madrid: Editorial Complutense. pp. 734, n. 2254. ISBN 9788474918519.
5. Reinhardt, Nicole (2016). Voices of Conscience: Royal Confessors and Political Counsel in Seventeenth-Century Spain and France. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 244. ISBN 9780198703686.