António Mendes Belo

Styles of António Mendes Belo
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Lisbon

António Mendes Belo (18 June 1842 – 5 August 1929) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Patriarch of Lisbon.

António Mendes Belo was born at São Pedro, Gouveia, (District of Guarda), Portugal, son of Miguel Mendes Belo and wife Rosalina dos Santos de Almeida da Mota. He was educated at the Seminary of Coimbra, and later at the University of Coimbra where he earned a licentiate in canon law. He received minor orders on 21 December 1860, the subdiaconate on 21 May 1864 and the diaconate on 17 December 1864.

He was ordained on 10 June 1865. From 1865 to 1884 he was vicar general of Funchal and from 1865 to 1871, professor of theology at the Seminary of Pinhel (diocese suppressed on 30 September 1881 by being incorporated in Guarda). He did pastoral work in the parish of Espinheiro. He was vicar general of the diocese of Pinhel from 1874 until 1881 and of the diocese of Aveiro in 1881. He was also vicar general of Lisbon from 1881 until 1884.

He was appointed titular archbishop of Mitylene and Auxiliary bishop of Lisbon on 24 March 1884 by Pope Leo XIII. He was consecrated on 27 April of that year. He was transferred to the see of Faro with title of Archbishop ad personam on 13 November 1884. He was promoted to the patriarchate of Lisbon on 19 December 1907 by Pope Pius X.

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