João Pinto da Piedade, O.P. (Latin: ''Joannes de Abrantes a Pictate'') was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as

Bishop of Macau Portuguese Jesuit priest Melchior Miguel Carniero Leitão was appointed Titular Bishop of Nicaea on January 23, 1555. A year later (on January 26, 1576), Pope Gregory XIII issued an edict for the establishment of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mac ...

(1604–1623).

Biography

João Pinto da Piedade was born in 1564 in

Abrantes Abrantes () is a concelho, municipality in the Centro Region, Portugal, central Médio Tejo Subregion, Médio Tejo subregion of Portugal. The population was 39,325, in an area of . The municipality includes several parishes divided by the Tagus ...

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...

. He was ordained in the

Order of Preachers The Order of Preachers ( la, Ordo Praedicatorum) abbreviated OP, also known as the Dominicans, is a Catholic mendicant order of Pontifical Right for men founded in Toulouse, France, by the Spanish priest, saint and mystic Dominic of Cal ...

. On 30 Aug 1604, he was appointed during the papacy of

Pope Clement VIII Pope Clement VIII ( la, Clemens VIII; it, Clemente VIII; 24 February 1536 – 3 March 1605), born Ippolito Aldobrandini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 2 February 1592 to his death in March 1605. Born ...

. In Nov 1604, he was consecrated bishop. In 1615, he renounced his title and left for Europe with fellow Dominican replacing him as administrator (who was later appointed Bishop of Malacca). His resignation was accepted by

Pope Urban VIII Pope Urban VIII ( la, Urbanus VIII; it, Urbano VIII; baptised 5 April 1568 – 29 July 1644), born Maffeo Vincenzo Barberini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 August 1623 to his death in July 1644. As po ...

on 27 October 1623. He died on 28 Jun 1628.

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* * 17th-century Roman Catholic bishops in China Bishops appointed by Pope Clement VIII Dominican bishops 1564 births 1628 deaths People from Abrantes Roman Catholic bishops of Macau {{RC-bishop-stub