Timoleon Raimondi
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Timoleon Raimondi (5 May 1827 – 27 September 1894) (
Vicar Apostolic of Hong Kong
(17 November 1874).
Raimondi was born in Milan, Italy. He was the younger brother of Antonio Raimondi, a prominent naturalist who worked in Peru. Timoleon was ordained as a priest on 25 May 1850. He was appointed as prefect of Hong Kong in Hong Kong on 27 December 1868.
Raimondi was also:
- Titular Bishop of Achantus and Hong Kong – 4 October 1874
- Titular Bishop of Achantus – 22 November 1874
He died in Hong Kong on 27 September 1894.
Raimondi College in the Mid-Levels, Hong Kong Island was named after him.
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Further reading
- von Hübner, Joseph Alexander Graf (1874). A Ramble Round the World, 1871: Japan. Macmillan and Co, London; translated by Baroness Mary Elizabeth Herbert. pp. 373–378.
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