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Cardinal José Sebastião de Almeida Neto

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Cardinal José Sebastião de Almeida Neto

Birth
Lagos, Lagos Municipality, Faro, Portugal
Death
7 Dec 1920 (aged 79)
Vilarino, Provincia de Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain
Burial
Lisbon, Lisboa Municipality, Lisboa, Portugal Add to Map
Plot
Pantheon of the Patriarchs
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José Sebastião de Almeida Neto was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Patriarch of Lisbon. He was ordained on 1 April 1865. Neto entered the Order of Friars Minor Discalced on 15 August 1875, adopting the name of Joseph of the Sacred Heart, but continued to work in the parish church of St. Sebastian until 1879, upon his bishopric appointment

In accordance with tradition holding that the Patriarch of Lisbon be made a cardinal, Pope Leo XIII raised him to that dignity in the consistory of March 24 of 1884. As the Patriarch of Lisbon he presided over the wedding of Prince Don Carlos with Amélie of Orléans, in the Church of St. Dominic in Lisbon on 22 May 1886. He participated in the conclave of 1903 that elected Pope Pius X.

In November 1907 Neto resigned and retired to a convent of his order. Due to religious persecution with the deployment of the first Republic he fled to Spain and as of 30 May 1913, was residing in the convent of Villarino of Ramallosa.

On 4 September 1913, at Sigmaringen Castle, he married the exiled King Manuel II of Portugal, whom he had baptized, and given first communion and confirmation, to his cousin, Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern.
José Sebastião de Almeida Neto was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Patriarch of Lisbon. He was ordained on 1 April 1865. Neto entered the Order of Friars Minor Discalced on 15 August 1875, adopting the name of Joseph of the Sacred Heart, but continued to work in the parish church of St. Sebastian until 1879, upon his bishopric appointment

In accordance with tradition holding that the Patriarch of Lisbon be made a cardinal, Pope Leo XIII raised him to that dignity in the consistory of March 24 of 1884. As the Patriarch of Lisbon he presided over the wedding of Prince Don Carlos with Amélie of Orléans, in the Church of St. Dominic in Lisbon on 22 May 1886. He participated in the conclave of 1903 that elected Pope Pius X.

In November 1907 Neto resigned and retired to a convent of his order. Due to religious persecution with the deployment of the first Republic he fled to Spain and as of 30 May 1913, was residing in the convent of Villarino of Ramallosa.

On 4 September 1913, at Sigmaringen Castle, he married the exiled King Manuel II of Portugal, whom he had baptized, and given first communion and confirmation, to his cousin, Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern.

Inscription

D. JOSÉ (III) SEBASTIAO NETO
MDCCCLXXXIII-MCMVI


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