# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/luis-fernando-castillo-mendez
# Generated: 2026-08-16T11:06:00.156Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/luis-fernando-castillo-mendez"
name: "Luis Fernando Castillo Mendez"
slug: "luis-fernando-castillo-mendez"
description: "Luis Fernando Castillo Mendez was a Venezuelan Independent Catholic priest who rose to the leadership of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church (ICAB). Castillo Mendez was arguably the second or third patriarch of ICAB and its 48 dioceses, although none of his predecessors used that title. He was apparently the nominal head of a network of Iglesias Catolicas Apostolicas Nacionales (ICAN) or National Catholic Apostolic Churches and the Worldwide Communion of Catholic Apostolic National Churches (WCCAC), which were unsuccessful attempts to form an international association of Independent Catholic churches."
tagline: "Patriarch of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church (1922–2009)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Luis_Fernando_Castillo_Mendez.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
birthDate: "1922-12-04"
deathDate: "2009-10-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.04
  momentum:             18.65625
  historical:           7.215732
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Fernando_Castillo_Mendez"
    title: "Luis Fernando Castillo Mendez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%88_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88_%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "لويس فرناندو كاستيلو مينديز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Fernando_Castillo_M%C3%A9ndez"
    title: "Luis Fernando Castillo Méndez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Fernando_Castillo_Mendez"
    title: "Luis Fernando Castillo Mendez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Fernando_Castillo_Mendez"
    title: "Luis Fernando Castillo Mendez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Fernando_Castillo_Mendez"
    title: "Luis Fernando Castillo Mendez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Fernando_Castillo_Mendez"
    title: "Luis Fernando Castillo Mendez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Fernando_Castillo_Mendez"
    title: "Luis Fernando Castillo Mendez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1669447"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump