Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Jesús María Fajardo | |
Bishop of Alghero | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Diocese of Alghero |
Term: | 1693–1694 |
Predecessor: | Jerónimo Velasco y Mendoza |
Successor: | Tommaso Carnicer |
Consecration: | 19 Jul 1693 |
Consecrated By: | Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero-Bocanegra y Moscoso-Osorio |
Birth Date: | 18 Mar 1643 |
Death Date: | 13 Apr 1694 |
Death Place: | Alghero, Italy |
José de Jesús María Fajardo, O.A.D. (1643–1694) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Alghero (1693–1694).[1] [2]
Jesús María Fajardo was born in Madrid, Spain on 18 Mar 1643 and ordained a priest in the Ordo Augustiniensium Discalceatorum.On 18 May 1693, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent XII as Bishop of Alghero.On 19 Jul 1693, he was consecrated bishop by Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero-Bocanegra y Moscoso-Osorio, Archbishop of Toledo, with Francisco Zapata Vera y Morales, Titular Bishop of Dara, and Luis de Lemos y Usategui, Bishop Emeritus of Concepción, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Alghero until his death on 13 Apr 1694.