Archbishop João Crisóstomo de Amorim Pessoa, O.F.M. Ref. †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Braga, Portugal

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
18 Oct 1810		Born
1827¹	16.2	Professed	Member of Order of Reformed Friars Minor
19 Sep 1835	24.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Reformed Friars Minor
13 Jul 1859	48.7	Selected	Bishop of Santiago de Cabo Verde
23 Mar 1860	49.4	Confirmed	Bishop of Santiago de Cabo Verde
26 Aug 1860	49.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Santiago de Cabo Verde
9 Feb 1861	50.3	Selected	Archbishop of Goa, India
22 Mar 1861	50.4	Confirmed	Archbishop of Goa, India
17 Nov 1874	64.0	Appointed	Coadjutor Archbishop of Braga, Portugal
27 Nov 1876	66.1	Succeeded	Archbishop of Braga, Portugal
Apr 1883²	72.4	Resigned	Archbishop of Braga, Portugal
22 Dec 1888	78.1	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Braga, Portugal

Note(s): ¹ Year Uncertain ; ² Month Uncertain

MicroData Summary
João Crisóstomo de Amorim Pessoa
Archbishop João Crisóstomo de Amorim Pessoa O.F.M. Ref.
(born 18 Oct 1810, died 22 Dec 1888)
Archbishop Emeritus of Braga

Event Place
Birth Place Cantanhede, Diocese of Coimbra
Ordained Bishop Seminary, Santarém, Archdiocese of Santarém, Para, Brazil

a priest for 53.2 years
a bishop for 28.3 years

Principal Consecrator:
Manuel Bento Cardinal Rodrigues da Silva †
Patriarch of Lisboa {Lisbon}
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Sebastião da Anunciação Gomes de Lemos, O.C.D. †
Bishop Emeritus of Angola e Congo
Bishop Joaquim Moreira Reis, O.S.B. †
Bishop Emeritus of Angola e Congo

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Manuel Bento Cardinal Rodrigues da Silva † (1846)
Patriarch of Lisboa {Lisbon}
Guilherme Cardinal Henriques de Carvalho † (1843)
Patriarch of Lisboa {Lisbon}
Francisco de São Luiz (Manoel Justiniano) Cardinal Saraiva, O.S.B. † (1822)
Patriarch of Lisboa {Lisbon}
Archbishop Vicente da Soledade e Castro, O.S.B. † (1820)
Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia
Bishop Jerónimo do Barco, O.F.M. Ref. †
Bishop of Santiago de Cabo Verde

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop João da França Castro e Moura, C.M. † (1862)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Cantanhede, Diocese of Coimbra
Ordained Bishop	Seminary, Santarém, Archdiocese of Santarém, Para, Brazil

External Link(s):

VIAF: 8198329
WikiData: Q10311372

Source(s):

b: Annuario Pontificio, Year 1885
c2+: CB
b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 156, and Page 287
b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 313
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1860, Number 22

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