José Jorge de Viteri y Ungo

José Jorge de Viteri y Ungo (24 April 1802 – 25 July 1853) was a prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of San Salvador and the Diocese of Nicaragua.

Quotes about José Jorge de Viteri y Ungo

• The bishop succeeded in driving out of the state the opponents of his theocratic ideas, and in bringing about a change in the government; in fact, everything had been conceded him, and his influence was paramount. And yet he was not satisfied. He would have the Salvadorans believe him a deity, but they arrived at the conclusion that by a great fatality their first bishop had turned out to be a pernicious revolutionist.
  • Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of Central America (1883)