Camara (Y Murga), Christopher De La,
a learned Spanish prelate, was born at Arciniega. near Burgos, towards the end of the 16th century. He was professor of Holy Scripture at Toledo, and afterwards bishop of the Canaries, and eventually of Salamanca, where he died in 1641. He published a sort of early ecclesiastical history of the Canaries, under the title, Constituciones Sinodales del Obispado de Canaria, su primiera fiundacion v translacion, vidas de sus obispos, y breve relacion de las islas (Madrid, 1634). See Landon, Eccles. Dict. s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.