Francisco García Diego y Moreno
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| Reference style | The Most Reverend |
| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Monsignor |
Francisco García Diego y Moreno, OFM, (17 September 1785 in Lagos, in the modern-day Mexican state of Jalisco – 30 April 1846 in Santa Barbara) was the first bishop of the Diocese of the Two Californias.
In 1801, he received the habit of Francis at the missionary College of Guadalupe de Zacatecas, made his vows the following year and was ordained a priest at Monterrey, Nuevo León, 14 Nov., 1808. For the next twenty years Father Diego was mainly occupied in preaching missions, and during this period compiled a small work, Metodo de Misionar, or "Method for Giving Missions". From 1816 to 1819 he was master of novices, in 1822 he was made discretos, and in February 1832, guardian or superior of the missionary college.
The Mexican government, which had resolved to expel all Spanish friars from Alta California, in April 1832, requested that the college send eleven native Mexican Franciscans members to California. Father Diego went as the commissary. They reached Cabo San Lucas in September 1832, and Monterey, the capital, in February 1833. The Guadalupan friars took charge of the missions from San Antonio to Sonoma. On 6 March, Father Diego chose Mission Santa Clara for his field of labor.
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