Patriarch of Lisbon
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The Patriarch of Lisbon is one of the few Western Patriarchates in the Roman Catholic Church, an honorary title without actual authority except for the Patriarch of Rome, as Pope.
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[edit] The see and its history
The diocese of Lisbon was created in the 4th century, but it lay vacant after 716 when the city was captured by the Moors. The diocese was restored when the city was recaptured by Afonso I of Portugal during the Second Crusade (see Siege of Lisbon). It was elevated first to an archdiocese on November 10, 1394, and then to a patriarchal see on November 7, 1716.
There are over two million people living in 282 parishes within the see, 85% of whom are nominally Catholic. The suffragan dioceses of the see are Angra, Funchal, Guarda, Leiria-Fátima, Portalegre-Castelo Branco, Santarém, and Setúbal. The former diocese of Silves, comprising the Algarve, and currently , was only transferred from the Spanish province of Sevilla in 1393. The other Portuguese archbishopric, Braga in the north, is older: 1104, and claimed to be the primate over all Portugal and northwest Spain (including Santiago archbishopric).
[edit] Precursors in the see
[edit] Bishops of Lisbon
- 1. St. Potamius (c. 356)
- 2. Saint Gens
- 3. Paulus (589)
- 4. Goma (610)
- 5. Viaric (633, 636, 638)
- 6. Nefrigius or Nefredus (646)
- 7. Cesarius (656)
- 8. Theodoric (666)
- 9. Ara (683)
- 10. Landericus (688, 693)
- 11. Ildefonso (8th century)
- 12. Gilbert of Hastings (1147-1163)
- 13. Álvaro (1164-1184)
- 14. Soeiro (I) (1185-1210)
- 15. Soeiro (II) Viegas (1210-1232)
- 16. Vincent (1233)
- 17. Paio Pais (1234)
- 18. João (I) Falberto (1234)
- 19. Estêvão (I) Gomes (1234-1237)
- 20. João (II) (1239-1241)
- 21. Richard Wiliam (1241)
- 22. Airas Vasques (1241-1258)
- 23. Mathew (1258-1282)
- 24. Estêvão (II) Anes de Vasconcelos (1282-1290)
- 25 Domingos Anes Jardo (1290-1293)
- 26. João (III) Martins de Soalhães (1294-1313)
- 27. Friar Estevão (III) (1313-1322)
- 28. Gonzalo Pereira (1322-1326)
- 29. João(IV) Afonso de Brito (1326-1342)
- 30. Vasco Martins (1342-1344)
- 31. Stephen (IV) de la Garde (1344-1348)
- 32. Thibaud de Castillon (1348-1356)
- 33. Reginald de Maubernard (1356-1358)
- 34. Lourenço Rodrigues (1359-1364)
- 35. Pedro Gomes Barroso (1364-1369)
- 36. Ferdinand Álvares (1369-1371)
- 37. Vasco (1371)
- 38. Agapito Colonna (1371-1378)
- 39. John (V) de Agoult (1379), nominee by the Roman Pope; therefore bishop of Aix-en-Provence
- 40. Martinho (1379-1383), nominee by the antipope in Avignon; murdered by the people during the 1383-1385 Crisis
- 41. João (VI) Guterres (1381-1382), nominee by the Roman Pope, therefore, bishop of Dax, Gascony
- 42. João (VII) Anes (c. 1383-1394)
[edit] Archbishops of Lisbon
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- João (I) Anes (1394-1402), cardinal
- 43. João (II) Afonso da Azambuja (1402-1415), cardinal
- 44. Diogo Álvares de Brito (1418-1422), not effective
- 45. Pedro de Noronha (1424-1452
- 46. Luís Coutinho (1452-1453)
- 47. Jaime Cardinal of Portugal (1455-1459)
- 48. Afonso (I) Nogueira (1459-1464)
- 49. Jorge Cardinal da Costa (1464-1500), Cardinal of Alpedrinha
- 50. Martinho da Costa (1500-1521)
- 51. Infant Afonso (II) Cardinal de Portugal (1523-1540)
- 52. Fernando de Menezes Coutinho e Vasconcelos (1540-1564)
- 53. Infant Henry Cardinal of Portugal (1564-1570)
- 54. Jorge de Almeida (1570-1585)
- 55. Miguel de Castro (1586-1625), also bishop of Viseu
- 56. Afonso (III) Furtado de Mendonça (1626-1630)
- 57. João (III) Manuel (1632-1633)
- 58. Rodrigo da Cunha (1635-1643)
- 59. António de Mendonça (1670-1675)
- 60. Luís de Sousa (1675-1702), cardinal
- 61. João (IV) de Sousa (1703-1710), also Archbishop of Braga
[edit] Patriarchs of Lisbon
- 62. Tomás de Almeida (1716-1754)
- 63. José Manuel da Câmara (1754-1758)
- 64. Francisco Saldanha (1758-1776)
- 65. Fernando de Sousa e Silva (1779-1786)
- 66. José-Francisco Miguel António de Mendonça (1786-1818)
- 67. Carlos da Cunha e Menezes (1819-1825)
- 68. Patrício da Silva (1826-1840)
- 69. Francisco de São Luiz Saraiva (1840-1845)
- 70. Guilherme Henriques de Carvalho (1845-1857)
- 71. Manuel Bento Rodrigues da Silva (1858-1869)
- 72. Inácio do Nascimento Morais Cardoso (1871-1883)
- 73. José Sebastião Neto (1883-1907)
- 74. António Mendes Bello (1907-1929)
- 75. Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira (1929-1971)
- 76. António Ribeiro (1971-1998)
- 77. José da Cruz Policarpo (1998-Present)
[edit] Sources, References and External links
- Giga-Catholic Information
- Patriarch of Lisbon at catholic-hierarchy.org
- Official website (in Portuguese)
- Westermann, Großer Atlas zur Weltgeschichte
