Bishop John Mendes †

Deceased

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Antilles

Titular Bishop of Elephantaria in Proconsulari

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
25 Nov 1926		Born
1 Nov 1953	26.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Antilles
25 Oct 1988	61.9	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Antilles
25 Oct 1988	61.9	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Elephantaria in Proconsulari
6 Jan 1989	62.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Elephantaria in Proconsulari
16 Jan 2002	75.1	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Antilles
24 Jun 2005	78.5	Died	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Antilles

MicroData Summary
John Mendes
Bishop John Mendes
(born 25 Nov 1926, died 24 Jun 2005)
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Port of Spain

Event Place
Birth Place Siparia

a priest for 51.6 years
a bishop for 16.4 years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Edward Idris Cassidy †
Titular Archbishop of Amantia
Archbishop José Tomás Sánchez †
Archbishop Emeritus of Nueva Segovia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
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

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q55186898

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 113, Number 10,025
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 183, Necrology (back)

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