José Tolentino Cardinal Calaça de Mendonça

Prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education

Cardinal-Deacon of Santi Domenico e Sisto

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
15 Dec 1965		Born
28 Jul 1990	24.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Funchal, Portugal
26 Jun 2018	52.5	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Suava
26 Jun 2018	52.5	Appointed	Archivist of the Vatican Secret Archive
26 Jun 2018	52.5	Appointed	Librarian of the Vatican Library
28 Jul 2018	52.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Suava
5 Oct 2019	53.8	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of Santi Domenico e Sisto
5 Oct 2019	53.8	Elevated to Cardinal
15 Dec 2019	54.0	Installed	Cardinal-Deacon of Santi Domenico e Sisto
26 Sep 2022	56.7	Appointed	Prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education

MicroData Summary for José Tolentino Calaça de Mendonça
(VIAF: 75931910; WikiData: Q4459693)
José Tolentino Cardinal Calaça de Mendonça (born 15 Dec 1965) Prefect of Culture and Education

Consistory - 2019: Created Cardinal

Event Place
Birth Place Machico, Diocese of Funchal, Portugal
Ordained Priest Cathedral, Funchal, Diocese of Funchal, Portugal
Ordained Bishop Santa Maria de Belém (Mosteiro dos Jerónimos), Church, Lisboa, Patriarchate of Lisboa {Lisbon}, Portugal

Please contact the Cardinal through the Dicastery for Culture and Education.

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Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Teodoro de Faria
Bishop of Funchal
Principal Consecrator:
Manuel José Cardinal Macário do Nascimento Clemente
Patriarch of Lisboa {Lisbon}
Principal Co-Consecrators:
António Augusto Cardinal dos Santos Marto
Bishop of Leiria-Fátima
Bishop Teodoro de Faria
Bishop Emeritus of Funchal

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Manuel José Cardinal Macário do Nascimento Clemente (2000)
Patriarch of Lisboa {Lisbon}
Patriarch José da Cruz Policarpo † (1978)
Patriarch of Lisboa {Lisbon}
António Cardinal Ribeiro † (1967)
Patriarch of Lisboa {Lisbon}
Manuel Cardinal Gonçalves Cerejeira † (1928)
Patriarch of Lisboa {Lisbon}
Bishop Manuel Luís Coelho da Silva † (1915)
Bishop of Coimbra
Bishop António José de Souza Barroso † (1891)
Bishop of Porto
José Sebastião (d’Almeida) Cardinal Neto, O.F.M. Disc. † (1880)
Patriarch of Lisboa {Lisbon}
Archbishop Gaetano Aloisi Masella † (1877)
Titular Archbishop of Neocaesarea in Ponto
Alessandro Cardinal Franchi † (1856)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Pope Pius IX (1827)
(Bl. Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti †)
Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Cardinal Castiglioni † (1800)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773)
Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli
Buenaventura Cardinal Córdoba Espinosa de la Cerda † (1761)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna
Archbishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz † (1749)
Titular Archbishop of Pharsalus
Archbishop Enrico Enríquez † (1743)
Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Consecrator of:
Archbishop Giovanni Cesare Pagazzi (2024)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Alfonso Vincenzo Amarante, C.SS.R. (2023)
Bishop Nuno Isidro Nunes Cordeiro (2024)
Bishop Alexandre Coutinho Lopes de Brito Palma (2024)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Machico, Diocese of Funchal, Portugal
Ordained Priest	Cathedral, Funchal, Diocese of Funchal, Portugal
Ordained Bishop	Santa Maria de Belém (Mosteiro dos Jerónimos), Church, Lisboa, Patriarchate of Lisboa {Lisbon}, Portugal

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 26 Jun 2018
ob: CB, 1 Jul 2018
ob/c2+: CB, 2 Jul 2018
ab: CB, 28 Jul 2018
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 237, Number 19,827
card: Bollettino, 1 Sep 2019
cdea: Bollettino, 5 Oct 2019
b: The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, 5 Oct 2019
ab: Bollettino, 28 Oct 2019
i: Bollettino, 9 Dec 2019
ab: Bollettino, 26 Sep 2022

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