CARRANZA, BARTOLOME MIRANDA) (1503 15 76) , Spanish theologian, was born at Miranda d'Arga, Navarre. He studied at Alcala, entered (1520) the Dominican order, and then studied (1521-25) at Salamanca and at Valladolid, where he was teacher of theology. No Spaniard save Melchior Cano rivalled him in learning. In 1530 he was denounced to the Inquisition as limiting the papal power and leaning to opinions of Eras mus, but the process failed. In 1540 he declined the sees of Can aria and of Cusco, Peru. Charles V. chose him an envoy to the Council of Trent (1546) where he insisted on the duty of bishops and clergy to reside in their benefices, publishing at Venice ) his De necessaria residentia personali, which he treated as juris divini. His Lenten sermon to the council, on justification, caused much comment. In 1550, he was made provincial for Castile. Charles sent him to England (1554) with his son Philip on occa sion of the marriage with Mary. He became Mary's confessor, and laboured earnestly for the old religion, especially in Oxford.
In 1557 Philip appointed him archbishop of Toledo. In i558 he was again denounced to the Inquisition, on the ground of his Comentarios sobre el Catechismo (Antwerp, 1558), which in 1563, however, was approved by a commission of the Council of Trent. Philip now imprisoned him for nearly eight years, and the book was placed on the Index. Carranza appealed to Rome and after ten years confinement, the final judgment found no proof of heresy, but compelled him to abjure 16 errors, and suspended him from his see for five years, and secluded him to the Dominican cloister of Sta. Maria sopra Minerva. He died on May 2, 1576. His Summa Conciliorum et Pontificum (Venice, 1546) has been often reprinted (as late as 1821), and has permanent value.
See P. Salazar de Miranda, Vida (1788) ; J. A. Llorente, Hist. In quisition in Spain (English abridgment, 1826) ; Hefele in I. Goschler's Dict. encyclopedique de la theol. cath. (i858) ; H. Laugwitz, Bartholo mdus Carranza (187o) .