António Joaquim de Medeiros, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

António Joaquim de Medeiros

Bishop of Macau

Date of Birth: 15-Oct-1846

Place of Birth: Vilar de Nantes, Vila Real District, Portugal

Date of Death: 07-Jan-1897

Profession: Catholic priest

Zodiac Sign: Libra

António Joaquim de Medeiros (Chinese: ???; 15 October 1846 – 7 January 1897) was a Portuguese prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
He was born in Portugal, and ordained in 1871.
By the mid-1870s he was working in Macau, and in 1877 he traveled to Portuguese Timor to serve in the Catholic missions there.
In 1882, he was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Goa, and in 1884 he was selected Bishop of Macau.
He served in that position until his death in 1897.