ECUADOR, 1944, the centenary of his birth, Scott 430-433

Federico González Suárez, a Jesuit up to the time of his ordination, became bishop of Ibarra in 1895 and archbishop of Quito in 1906. When the liberal government of Eloy Alfaro began to strip the Church of the power and privileges it had amassed under previous conservative governments, Ecuador would have declined into a bloody civil war but for the bishop's intervention urging the clergy to abandon their resistance. He is also known as an historian, the founder of scientific historiography in Ecuador, and author of History of the Kingdom of Quito, and the three-volume General History of the Republic of Ecuador.

 
ECUADOR, 1994, the 150th anniversary of his birth, Scott 1336, and its FDI cancel

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