Gonzalo de Ubeda
Spanish Roman Catholic Bishop of Drivasto and blessed
Feast: 1 March (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Blessed Gonzalo de Ubeda was a Mercedarian auxiliary bishop of Granada and perpetual commander of his order. Around the year 1500 he moved his monastery, which had stood a mile from Granada, to a site near the city's Porta Elvira, where between 1521 and 1525 he built a church and convent in a Romanesque-Gothic-Moorish style. He died a holy death at Granada in 1538. The order keeps his feast on 1 March.
The miracles
The source does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
Mercedarian auxiliary bishop of Granada who built a new church and convent near the city's Porta Elvira in the 1520s; feast 1 March.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
- Santi, beati e testimoni (santiebeati.it) - Beato Gonzalo de Ubeda
- Wikidata Q66788994 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.