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

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Braga

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
18 Oct 1810		Born	Cantanhede, Portugal
1827¹	16.2	Professed	Member of Order of Friars Minor
19 Sep 1835	24.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of 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	49.9	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	64.1	Appointed	Coadjutor Archbishop of Braga, Portugal
27 Nov 1876	66.1	Succeeded	Archbishop of Braga, Portugal
Apr 1883²	72.5	Resigned	Archbishop of Braga, Portugal
22 Dec 1888	78.2	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Braga, Portugal

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

a priest for 53.3 years a bishop for 28.3 years	Principal Consecrator: Manuel Bento Cardinal Rodrigues da Silva † Principal Co-Consecrators: Bishop Sebastião da Anunciação Gomes de Lemos, O.C.D. † Bishop Joaquim Moreira Reis, O.S.B. †
Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession: Archbishop João Crisóstomo de Amorim Pessoa, O.F.M. † (1860) Manuel Bento Cardinal Rodrigues da Silva † (1846) Guilherme Cardinal Henriques de Carvalho † (1843) Francisco de São Luiz (Manoel Justiniano) Cardinal Saraiva, O.S.B. † (1822) Archbishop Vicente da Soledade e Castro, O.S.B. †

Source(s):

b: Annuario Pontificio, Year 1885
c2+: CB
b: Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recentioris Aevi, Volume 8, Page 156, and Page 287
b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recentioris Aevi, Volume 8, Page 313