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Francisco de la Cuesta (1661 – 1724) was the 12th Archbishop of Manila from 1707 to 1722 and acting Governor-General of the Philippines from 1719 to 1721.

Biography

In 1719, then Governor-General Fernando Manuel de Bustillo Bustamante y Rueda had de la Cuesta and his monks rounded up and imprisoned. In response, local followers of the Archbishop later stormed the Governor-General's mansion and murdered him in the streets.[1] Following Bustamante's assassination, he was succeeded as Governor-General by de la Cuesta himself.[2]

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