Bishop António Joaquim Torrão †

Deceased

Auxiliary Bishop of Évora, Portugal

Titular Bishop of Lagania

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
17 Nov 1709³		Born
6 Apr 1733	23.3	Ordained Priest	Priest
8 Mar 1773	63.3	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Évora, Portugal
8 Mar 1773	63.3	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Lagania
3 Oct 1773	63.8	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Lagania

Note(s): ³ Day Uncertain

MicroData Summary
António Joaquim Torrão
Bishop António Joaquim Torrão
(born 17 Nov 1709)
Auxiliary Bishop of Évora

Event Place
Birth Place Serpa
Ordained Bishop Évora, Archdiocese of Évora

Principal Consecrator:
João Cosme Cardinal da Cunha (de Nossa Senhora da Porta), C.R.S.A. †
Archbishop of Évora
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Joaquim Borges de Figueroa †
Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia
Archbishop Antonio Bonifacio Coelho †
Titular Archbishop of Lacedaemonia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

João Cosme Cardinal da Cunha (de Nossa Senhora da Porta), C.R.S.A. † (1746)
Archbishop of Évora
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 José Joaquim Justiniano Mascarenhas Castello Branco † (1774)
Bishop António Freire Gameiro de Sousa † (1774)
Bishop Francisco de Lemos de Faria Pereira Coutinho † (1774)
Bishop Gabriel Álvarez de Faria y Sánchez Zarzosa † (1798)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q64762727

Source(s):

b: Annuario Pontificio, Year 1795
b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 6, Page 258, and Page 451
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1773, Number 33
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 13, Number 662
Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 15, Number 834

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