Francisco Suárez de Villegas explained

Type:	Bishop
Honorific-Prefix:	Most Reverend
Francisco Suárez de Villegas
Titular Bishop of Memphis
Church:	Catholic Church
Term:	1649–1664
Predecessor:	Jacobus Wemmers
Ordination:	24 November 1611
Consecration:	21 December 1649
Consecrated By:	Giulio Roma
Death Date:	17 April 1664

Francisco Suárez de Villegas, O. Carm. (died 1664) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Titular Bishop of Memphis (1649–1664).^[1]

Biography

Francisco Suárez de Villegas was born in Lisbon, Portugal and ordained a priest in the Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel on 24 November 1611.^[2] On 9 December 1649, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent X as Vicar Apostolic and Titular Bishop of Memphis.On 21 December 1649, he was consecrated bishop by Giulio Roma, Bishop of Tivoli, with Onorato Onorati, Bishop of Urbania e Sant'Angelo in Vado, and Francesco Visconti, Bishop of Cremona, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Vicar Apostolic and Titular Bishop of Memphis until his death on 17 April 1664.

Episcopal succession

While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of:

• Flaminio Marcellino, Bishop of Cesena (1655);
• Francesco de Estrada, Archbishop of Brindisi (1659);
• Attilio Pietrasanta, Bishop of Vigevano (1659); and
• Lorenzo Díaz de Encinas, Bishop of Ugento (1659).

External links and additional sources

• Web site: Cheney . David M.. Memphis (Titular See) . Catholic-Hierarchy.org. June 16, 2018. (for Chronology of Bishops)
• Web site: Chow . Gabriel. Titular Episcopal See of Memphis (Egypt). GCatholic.org. June 16, 2018. (for Chronology of Bishops)

Notes and References

1. Book: Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi . Gauchat. Patritius (Patrice). IV. 239. 1935. Libraria Regensbergiana. Münster. (in Latin)
2. Web site: Cheney . David M.. Bishop Francisco Suárez de Villegas, O. Carm. . Catholic-Hierarchy.org. June 16, 2018.