Bishop João de Faro, O.F.M. Ref. †

Deceased

Bishop of Santiago de Cabo Verde

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
20 Jan 1676		Born
16 Jul 1701	25.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Reformed Friars Minor
29 Jul 1738	62.5	Selected	Bishop of Santiago de Cabo Verde
3 Sep 1738	62.6	Confirmed	Bishop of Santiago de Cabo Verde
5 Oct 1738	62.7	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Santiago de Cabo Verde
21 Jul 1741	65.5	Died	Bishop of Santiago de Cabo Verde

MicroData Summary
João de Faro
Bishop João de Faro O.F.M. Ref.
(born 20 Jan 1676, died 21 Jul 1741)
Bishop of Santiago de Cabo Verde

Event Place
Birth Place Faro, Portugal
Ordained Bishop Lisboa, Patriarchate of Lisboa {Lisbon}, Portugal

a priest for 40.0 years
a bishop for 2.7 years

Principal Consecrator:
Tomás Cardinal de Almeida †
Patriarch of Lisboa {Lisbon}
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop António Paes Godinho †
Bishop Emeritus of Nanking [Nanjing]
Bishop Emmanuel de Jesus-Maria-Joseph, O.F.M. †
Bishop of Nanking [Nanjing]

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Tomás Cardinal de Almeida † (1707)
Patriarch of Lisboa {Lisbon}
Bishop Nuno da Cunha e Ataíde † (1706)
Titular Bishop of Targa
Bishop Álvaro de Abranches e Noronha † (1694)
Bishop of Leiria
Bishop João de Sousa † (1684)
Bishop of Porto
Archbishop Veríssimo de Lencastre † (1671)
Archbishop Emeritus of Braga
Bishop Francesco Ravizza † (1667)
Titular Bishop of Sidon
Neri Cardinal Corsini † (1652)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo
Fabio Cardinal Chigi † (1635)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria del Popolo
Bishop Miguel Juan Balaguer Camarasa, O.S.Io.Hieros. † (1635)
Bishop of Malta
Francesco Maria Cardinal Brancaccio † (1627)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Cosimo Cardinal de Torres † (1621)
Cardinal-Priest of San Pancrazio
Maffeo (Virginio Romolo) Cardinal Barberini † (1604)
Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Onofrio
Patriarch Fabio Biondi (Blondus de Montealto) † (1588)
Titular Patriarch of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}
Scipione Cardinal Gonzaga † (1585)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria del Popolo
Iñigo Cardinal Avalos de Aragón, O.S. † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
Pope Pius V (1556)
(St. Antonio (Michele) Ghislieri, O.P. †)
Giovanni Michele Cardinal Saraceni † (1536)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Antonio Cardinal Sanseverino, O.S.Io.Hieros. † (1531)
Archbishop of Taranto
Pope Clement VII (1517)
(Giulio de’ Medici †)
Pope Leo X (1513)
(Giovanni de’ Medici †)
Raffaele Cardinal Sansoni Riario † (1504)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Pope Julius II (1481)
(Giuliano della Rovere †)
Pope Sixtus IV (1471)
(Francesco della Rovere, O.F.M. †)
Guillaume Cardinal d’Estouteville, O.S.B. †
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Guilherme de São José Antonio de Aranha † (1738)
Bishop Luiz de Santa Teresa da Cruz Salgado de Castilho, O.C.D. † (1738)
Bishop Manoel da Cruz Nogueira, O. Cist. † (1738)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q64733870

Source(s):

b: CB
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1738, Number 25
b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 6, Page 239
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 50, Number 3,427

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