| Type: | Bishop |
| Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
| Diego Cabeza de Vaca | |
| Bishop of Crotone | |
| Church: | Catholic Church |
| Diocese: | Diocese of Crotone |
| Term: | 1623–1625 |
| Predecessor: | Carlo Catalani |
| Successor: | Niceforo Melisseno Comneno |
| Consecration: | 4 February 1624 |
| Consecrated By: | Giovanni Garzia Mellini |
| Death Date: | December 1625 |
| Death Place: | Crotone, Italy |
Diego Cabeza de Vaca (died 1625) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Crotone (1623–1625).[1]
A native of the diocese of Seville (Hispalis) in Spain, he was a doctor of theology and a Canon of the cathedral Chapter of Tuy (Tudensis) in Spain. He served as Visitor General of the bishop of Segovia. Cabeza de Vaca was a follower of Cardinal Antonio Zapata y Cisneros, who was Viceroy of Naples from 1620 to 1622.[2]
On 20 November 1623, Diego Cabeza de Vaca was appointed during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII as Bishop of Crotone.On 4 February 1624, he was consecrated bishop by Giovanni Garzia Mellini, Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quattro Coronati, with Alessandro di Sangro, Archbishop of Benevento, and Agostino Morosini, Titular Archbishop of Damascus, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Crotone until his death in December 1625.