João de Deus Ramalho

João de Deus Ramalho (8 January 1980 - 4 January 1958) was a Portuguese Roman Catholic Prelate and Member of the Society of Jesus. He was the Bishop of the Diocese of Macau from 1942 until his resignation in 1954.

Biography Born in São Vicente da Beira in Portugal on 8 January 1890, after completing his education in his hometown, he entered the school in Guimarães run by the Jesuits; he later joined the Jesuits on 7 September 1906.

He was ordained a subdeacon on 28 July 1921, then a deacon on 29 July, and a priest on the 30th of the same month.

In 1926, after studying Chinese, he was assigned to Zhaoqing to exercise his priestly ministry until his elevstion to the episcopate. On 13 July 1940, he was appointed Vicar General of Zhaoqing, a position he held concurrently with his duties as a missionary in Zhaoqing.