Juan Francisco Aragone (born 24 May 1883 in
Carmelo – deceased 7 May 1953 in
Montevideo) was a Uruguayan cleric.
After over a decade vacancy, on 3 July 1919 Aragone was appointed as the second Roman Catholic archbishop of Montevideo. In his coat of arms can be read the motto ''Omnia possum in eo qui me confortat''.
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In 1940 he resigned and was appointed
titular archbishop
A titular bishop in various churches is a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese.
By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox an ...
of
Melitene. He died in 1953.
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1883 births
1953 deaths
People from Colonia Department
Uruguayan people of Italian descent
Bishops appointed by Pope Benedict XV
20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Uruguay
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic
Burials at Montevideo Metropolitan Cathedral
Uruguayan Roman Catholic archbishops
Roman Catholic archbishops of Montevideo
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