João Cosme Cardinal da Cunha (de Nossa Senhora da Porta), O.C.S.A. †

Deceased

Date	Age	Event	Title
20 Oct 1715		Born	Lisbon
15 May 1740	24.6	Ordained Deacon	Deacon
22 May 1740	24.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Lisboa, Portugal
28 Mar 1746	30.4	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Leiria, Portugal
28 Mar 1746	30.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Olimpus
8 Apr 1746	30.5	Succeeded	Bishop of Leiria, Portugal
29 Jun 1746	30.7	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Leiria, Portugal
24 Mar 1760	44.4	Appointed	Archbishop of Évora, Portugal
6 Aug 1770	54.8	Elevated to Cardinal
31 Jan 1783	67.3	Died	Archbishop of Évora, Portugal

a priest for 42.7 years a bishop for 36.6 years a cardinal for 12.5 years	Principal Consecrator: Tomás Cardinal de Almeida † Principal Co-Consecrators: Archbishop José Dantas Barbosa † Bishop João da Cruz Salgado de Castilho, O.C.D. †
Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession: João Cosme Cardinal da Cunha (de Nossa Senhora da Porta), O.C.S.A. † (1746) Tomás Cardinal de Almeida † (1707) Nuno Cardinal da Cunha e Ataíde † (1706) Bishop Álvaro de Abranches e Noronha † (1694) Archbishop João de Sousa † (1684) Verissimo Cardinal de Lencastre †	Principal Consecrator of: Bishop Nicolau Joaquim Torel da Cunha Manuel † Bishop José de Jesus Maria Caetano Carvalho, O.P. † Archbishop Francisco da Assumpção e Brito, O.S.A. † Bishop José Joaquim Justiniano Mascarenhas Castello Branco † Bishop Tomaz da Encarnação da Costa e Lima, C.R.S.A. †