Fray Juan Ramírez, fourth bishop of Guatemala (died 1609)

A Dominican bishop of Guatemala who made the wage and the forced service of Indians a matter of the confessional: he refused absolution to anyone holding an Indian in service or repartimiento until the man was let go free, took the argument to the Synod of Mexico, was ordered to stop preaching it, and asked licence to ride the whole province recording how judges and townsmen used their Indians and whether they paid them. The only account of him read here is his own order's.