Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Leonardo Fernandes de Sá | |
Bishop of Macau | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Diocese of Macau |
Term: | 1578–1597 |
Predecessor: | Melchior Carneiro (administrator) |
Successor: | João Pinto da Piedade |
Birth Place: | Cartaxo, Portugal |
Death Date: | 15 September 1597 |
Leonardo Fernandes de Sá, O. Cist. was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Macau (1578–1597).[1]
Leonardo Fernandes de Sá was born in Cartaxo, Portugal.[2] He was ordained in the Order of Cistercians.[2] On 27 Oct 1578 he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Gregory XIII as Bishop of Macau.[2] He arrived at Macau in 1581 replacing Melchior Carneiro, the Patriarch of Ethiopia, who was serving as administrator.He served as Bishop of Macau until his death on 15 Sep 1597.[3] The diocese was governed by Father Manuel de Aguiar from 1597–1599 and Miguel dos Santos from 1599–1607[4] until the arrival of João Pinto da Piedade.
. Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi . Konrad Eubel. III. 231. 1923. Libreria Regensbergiana. Münster. second. Latin.