Juan Romero de Figueroa

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Romero and the second or maternal family name is de Figueroa.
A street next to the Church of St. Mary the Crowned (Spanish: Iglesia de Santa María la Coronada) in San Roque named after Romero de Figueroa.

Juan Romero de Figueroa (Gibraltar, 16 September 1646 – 7 July 1720[1]) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest, in charge of the Parish Church of St. Mary the Crowned (Santa Maria la Coronada y San Bernardo)[2] during the last years of Gibraltar's Spanish period and first ones of the British period, until his death. He remained at his post even after the territory's capture by an Anglo-Dutch fleet in 1704 on behalf of the Archduke Charles, one of the claimants to the Spanish throne in the War of the Spanish Succession, when most of its population abandoned Gibraltar (only about 60 out of 4,000 remained).[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference almoraima was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ A short history of the Diocese of Gibraltar Archived 2009-01-03 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Sir William Godfrey Fothergill Jackson (1987). The Rock of the Gibraltarians: a history of Gibraltar. Farleigh Dickinson University Press. p. 99. ISBN 9780838632376. Retrieved 7 April 2011.