Timoleon Raimondi (5 May 1827 – 27 September 1894) () was the Last

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and First

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Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...

(17 November 1874). Raimondi was born in

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. He was the younger brother of

Antonio Raimondi Antonio Raimondi (September 19, 1826 – October 26, 1890) was a prominent Italian-born Peruvian geographer and scientist. Born in Milan, Raimondi emigrated to Peru, arriving on July 28, 1850, at the port of Callao. In 1851 he became a profe ...

, a prominent naturalist who worked in

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. Timoleon was ordained as a priest on 25 May 1850. He was appointed as prefect of Hong Kong in

on 27 December 1868. Raimondi was also: * Titular Bishop of Achantus and

– 4 October 1874 * Titular Bishop of Achantus – 22 November 1874 He died in

on 27 September 1894. Raimondi College in the Mid-Levels, Hong Kong Island was named after him.

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Bishop Timoleone Raimondi, M.E.M.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Raimondi, Timoleon 1827 births 1894 deaths Apostolic Vicars of Hong Kong 19th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops 19th-century Roman Catholic bishops in China Hong Kong people

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