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Timoleon Raimondi (5 May 1827 – 27 September 1894) () was the Last Prefect and First 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.
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Bishop Timoleone Raimondi, M.E.M.
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