José Joaquin Jimeno

Father José Joaquin Jimeno (30 November 1804, Mexico City – 14 March 1856, Santa Barbara, California)[1] was a Spanish missionary to the Americas.

From 1838 to 1844, he held the position of Presidente of the California mission chain and of Vicáreo Foraneo to the bishop.

Joaquín remained there from October 1 of that year until about the summer of 1830, when he was transferred to Mission Santa Cruz.

Bishop Francisco García Diego y Moreno on May 4, 1844, opened the first Diocesan Seminary at the Mission, and appointed Fr.

[2] In 1839, the College of San Fernando de Mexico chose him Presidente of the Fernandinos Franciscans in California, and he held the office until the death, in 1846, of Fr.

In 1840, Bishop José Lázaro de la Garza y Ballesteros [es] of Sonora named Fr.

Sánchez withdrew to Santa Barbara, California but both were soon transferred to Mission San Gabriel, Fr.

Comisário Prefecto of the Missions and local Superior of this College of Our Lady of Sorrows, Fr.

José Joaquín Jimeno, who, after long and important services to this country for the space of 28 years, and after suffering with unalterable patience a long and painful infirmity, having received the holy Sacraments of Penance, Viaticum, and Extreme Unction, passed away yesterday amid the grief of all the students of this Apostolic College and of the inhabitants of this city.

We find him exercising his privilege at least once at Mission San Juan Capistrano on August 2 and 15, 1850, when 132 persons were confirmed.