title: José Esteve Juan
text: # José Esteve Juan
  
  José Esteve Juan (also Giuseppe Esteve Stefano) (1550 – 2 November 1603) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Orihuela (1594–1603) and Bishop of Vieste (1586–1589).
  
  ## Biography
  
  José Esteve Juan was born in Valencia, Spain in 1550. On 17 March 1586, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Sixtus V as Bishop of Vieste. On April 1586, he was consecrated bishop by Giulio Antonio Santorio, Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all'Isola, with Marco Antonio Marsilio, Archbishop of Salerno, and Scipione de Tolfa, Archbishop of Trani, serving as co-consecrators. In 1589, he resigned as Bishop of Vieste. On 12 January 1594, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Clement VIII as Bishop of Orihuela. He served as Bishop of Orihuela until his death on 2 November 1603.
  
  ## Episcopal succession
  
  While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of:
  
  * Ludovico de Torres, Archbishop of Monreale (1588); and
  * Alfonso Laso Sedeño, Bishop of Gaeta (1588).
  