Archbishop José Alfonso Meléndez, O.F.M. Disc. †

Deceased

Archbishop of Palermo, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
22 Nov 1690³		Born
20 Jun 1708	17.5	Professed	Member of Order of Discalced Friars Minor
21 Sep 1715	24.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Discalced Friars Minor
6 Sep 1740	49.7	Selected	Bishop of Potenza, Italy
30 Jan 1741	50.1	Confirmed	Bishop of Potenza, Italy
5 Feb 1741	50.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Potenza, Italy
26 Dec 1747	57.0	Selected	Archbishop of Palermo, Italy
19 Feb 1748	57.2	Confirmed	Archbishop of Palermo, Italy
31 Oct 1753	62.9	Died	Archbishop of Palermo, Italy

Note(s): ³ Day Uncertain

MicroData Summary
José Alfonso Meléndez
Archbishop José Alfonso Meléndez O.F.M. Disc.
(born 22 Nov 1690, died 31 Oct 1753)
Archbishop of Palermo

Event Place
Birth Place Madrid, Archdiocese of Toledo, Spain

a priest for 38.1 years
a bishop for 12.7 years

Principal Consecrator:
Troiano Cardinal Acquaviva d’Aragona †
Archbishop of Monreale
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Celestino Galiano, O.S.B. †
Titular Archbishop of Thessalonica
Archbishop Giovanni Rossi, C.R. †
Archbishop of Taranto

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Troiano Cardinal Acquaviva d’Aragona † (1729)
Archbishop of Monreale
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

Event	Place
Birth Place	Madrid, Archdiocese of Toledo, Spain

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Source(s):

b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 6, Page 327, and Page 347
b/c2+: Episcopologio Español, Volume 1,700, Page 60, Number 271
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1741, Number 10

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