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The Patriarch of the East Indies in the Catholic
Catholic

Catholic is an adjective derived from the Greek language adjective , meaning "whole" or "complete". In the context of Christianity ecclesiology, it has a rich history and several usages....
 hierarchy
Hierarchy

A 'hierarchy' is an arrangement of items The word derives from the Greek language , from ?e?????? , "president of sacred rites, high-priest" and that from , "sacred" + , "to lead, to rule"....
 is the title of the Archbishop of Goa and Damão in India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
; another title of his is that of the Primate
Primate (religion)

Primate is a title or rank bestowed on some bishops in certain Christianity churches. Depending on the particular tradition, it can denote either jurisdictional authority or ceremonial precedence ....
 of the East. Unlike the patriarch
Patriarch

Originally a patriarch was a man who exercised Autocracy authority as a pater familias over an extended family. The system of such rule of families by senior males is called patriarchy....
s of the Eastern Catholic Churches sui juris, the Patriarch of the East Indies enjoys a purely honorary title and is fully subject to the pope
Pope

The Pope is the Bishop of Rome, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church and head of state of Vatican City. The current pope is Pope Benedict XVI, who was elected April 19, 2005 in Papal conclave, 2005....
. He has a place within the Latin Rite
Latin Rite

The Latin Rite is one of the 23 sui iuris particular Churches within the Catholic Church. This particular Church developed in western Europe and north Africa, where, from classical antiquity to the Renaissance, Latin was the principal language of education and culture, and so also of the liturgy....
 similar to the Patriarchs of Venice
Patriarch of Venice

The Patriarch of Venice is one of the few Patriarchs in the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church. The diocese of Venice was created in 774, but it was only in 1457 that its bishops were accorded the title of the patriarch by the Pope, for political considerations....
 and Lisbon
Patriarch of Lisbon

The Patriarch of Lisbon is an honorary title possessed by the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lisbon.The first patriarch of Lisbon was D....
. The Patriarch of the East Indies is the diocesan ordinary
Ordinary

In those hierarchically organised churches of Western Christianity which have an ecclesiastical law system, an ordinary is an officer of the church who by reason of office has ordinary power to executive the church's laws....
 of the Archdiocese of Goa e Damão and the metropolitan archbishop of the Province of Goa e Damão.

This title of Patriarch of the East Indies was conferred upon the Archbishop of Goa as part of a settlement between the Holy See
Holy See

The Holy See is the episcopal jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome, commonly known as the Pope, and is the preeminent episcopal see of the Roman Catholic Church, forming the central government of the Church....
 and the Portuguese
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
 government concerning the link between religious and political aspects of Portuguese colonial expansion
Portuguese India

Portuguese India was the aggregate of Portugal's colonial holdings in India. At the time of British India's independence in 1947, Portuguese India included a number of enclaves on India's western coast, including Goa proper, as well as the coastal enclaves of Daman and Daman and Diu, and the enclaves of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, which lie inl...
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The Patriarch of the East Indies in the Catholic
Catholic

Catholic is an adjective derived from the Greek language adjective , meaning "whole" or "complete". In the context of Christianity ecclesiology, it has a rich history and several usages....
 hierarchy
Hierarchy

A 'hierarchy' is an arrangement of items The word derives from the Greek language , from ?e?????? , "president of sacred rites, high-priest" and that from , "sacred" + , "to lead, to rule"....
 is the title of the Archbishop of Goa and Damão in India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
; another title of his is that of the Primate
Primate (religion)

Primate is a title or rank bestowed on some bishops in certain Christianity churches. Depending on the particular tradition, it can denote either jurisdictional authority or ceremonial precedence ....
 of the East. Unlike the patriarch
Patriarch

Originally a patriarch was a man who exercised Autocracy authority as a pater familias over an extended family. The system of such rule of families by senior males is called patriarchy....
s of the Eastern Catholic Churches sui juris, the Patriarch of the East Indies enjoys a purely honorary title and is fully subject to the pope
Pope

The Pope is the Bishop of Rome, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church and head of state of Vatican City. The current pope is Pope Benedict XVI, who was elected April 19, 2005 in Papal conclave, 2005....
. He has a place within the Latin Rite
Latin Rite

The Latin Rite is one of the 23 sui iuris particular Churches within the Catholic Church. This particular Church developed in western Europe and north Africa, where, from classical antiquity to the Renaissance, Latin was the principal language of education and culture, and so also of the liturgy....
 similar to the Patriarchs of Venice
Patriarch of Venice

The Patriarch of Venice is one of the few Patriarchs in the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church. The diocese of Venice was created in 774, but it was only in 1457 that its bishops were accorded the title of the patriarch by the Pope, for political considerations....
 and Lisbon
Patriarch of Lisbon

The Patriarch of Lisbon is an honorary title possessed by the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lisbon.The first patriarch of Lisbon was D....
. The Patriarch of the East Indies is the diocesan ordinary
Ordinary

In those hierarchically organised churches of Western Christianity which have an ecclesiastical law system, an ordinary is an officer of the church who by reason of office has ordinary power to executive the church's laws....
 of the Archdiocese of Goa e Damão and the metropolitan archbishop of the Province of Goa e Damão.

This title of Patriarch of the East Indies was conferred upon the Archbishop of Goa as part of a settlement between the Holy See
Holy See

The Holy See is the episcopal jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome, commonly known as the Pope, and is the preeminent episcopal see of the Roman Catholic Church, forming the central government of the Church....
 and the Portuguese
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
 government concerning the link between religious and political aspects of Portuguese colonial expansion
Portuguese India

Portuguese India was the aggregate of Portugal's colonial holdings in India. At the time of British India's independence in 1947, Portuguese India included a number of enclaves on India's western coast, including Goa proper, as well as the coastal enclaves of Daman and Daman and Diu, and the enclaves of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, which lie inl...
. Later, with Portugal's decline as a colonial power, a difficult period resulted that was resolved by a further agreement by which Portugal renounced its rights of patronage (Padroado
Padroado

The Padroado was a treaty between the Holy See and the kingdoms of Portugal and Spain.The Vatican delegated to their kings the administration of the local Church....
). In this way the episcopal appointments in actual or former Portuguese colonial territory reverted to the common provisions of ecclesiastical law, and hence to the unhampered decisions of the Holy See. As regards India, this meant that the Holy See was free to make appointments to the episcopate there that took account of the growth of British expansion
British Raj

British Raj primarily refers to the British rule in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947; it can also refer to the period of dominion, and even the region under the rule....
.

The later isolation of the territory of Goa
Goa

Goa is India's smallest states and territories of India in terms of area and the List of states and territories of India by population. Located on the west coast of India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its western...
 as a Portuguese colonial enclave in India prior to the invasion of Indian forces in 1961 accounts for the fact that the Archbishop of Goa for a number of decades was immediately subject to the Holy See and had no suffragan dioceses. In the more distant past the archbishop did have a true metropolitan
Metropolitan bishop

In Christian churches with episcopal polity, the rank of metropolitan bishop, or simply metropolitan, pertains to the diocesan bishop or archbishop of a metropolis ; that is, the chief city of a historical Roman province, ecclesiastical province, or regional capital....
 jurisdiction, with suffragan dioceses. These, however, were progressively stripped away or suppressed, the final suffragen diocese in India was the Diocese of Damão, which was merged with the Archdiocese of Goa on May 1, 1928 to form the present archdiocese. The archdiocese formally lost its status as a metropolitan see on January 1, 1975, when the Dioceses of Macau and Dili were transferred from the province of Goa. On 25 November 2006 Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI

Pope Benedict XVI is the List of popes and reigning Pope, by virtue of his office of Bishop of Rome, the head of the Roman Catholic Church and, as such, monarch of the Vatican City....
 elevated it again to a metropolitan archdiocese, with the Diocese of Sindhudurg
Diocese of Sindhudurg

The Diocese of Sindhudurg in India was created on July 5 2005, when it was split off from the Diocese of Poona. It was a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Bombay until 25 November 2006, when Pope Benedict XVI transferred it to the newly established Metropolitan province of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Goa e Dam?o....
 as its suffragan.

Ordinaries of the Diocese of Goa


Bishops of Goa

  • Francisco de Melo (1533)
  • João Afonso de Albuquerque (1538-1553)
    • vacant (1553-1560)


Archbishops of Goa

  • Gaspar de Leão Pereira (1560-1567)
  • Jorge Temudo, OP (1568-1571)
    • Gaspar de Leão Pereira (1574-1576), restored
  • Henrique de Távora e Brito, OP (1578-1581)
  • João Vicente da Fonseca, OP (1582-1587)
  • Mateus de Medina, OC
    Order of Christ (Portugal)

    For the papal order of Knighthood see Order of Christ File:Convento Cristo Decemebr 2008-8.jpgFounded in 1318, the Military Order of Christ was the heritage of the Knights Templar in Portugal, after the suppression of the Templars in 1312....
     (1588-1592)
  • Aleixo de Menezes
    Aleixo de Menezes

    Aleixo de Menezes was Archbishop of Goa, Archbishop of Braga, Portugal, and Spanish viceroy of Portugal....
    , OSA (1595-1609)
  • Cristóvão de Sá e Lisboa (1613-1622)
  • Sebastião de S. Pedro, OSA (1625-1629)
  • Manuel Teles de Brito, OP (1633)
  • Francisco dos Mártires, OFM (1636-1652)
    • vacant (1652-1672)
  • Cristóvão da Silveira, OSA (1671-1673)
  • António Brandão, OC (1675-1678)
  • Manuel de Sousa e Menezes (1681-1684)
  • Alberto da Silva, OSA (1685-1688)
  • Agostinho da Anunciação, OC (1691-1713)
  • Sebastião de Andrade Pessanha (1716-1720)
  • Inácio de Santa Teresa, OSA (1721-1740)
  • Eugénio de Trigueiros, OSA (1740-1741)
  • Lourenço de Santa Maria e Melo, OFM (1741-1750)
  • António Taveira da Neiva Brum e Silveira, OSJ (1750-1773)
  • Francisco da Assunção e Brito, OSA (1774-1783)
  • Manuel de Santa Catarina, OCD
    Discalced Carmelites

    The Discalced Carmelites, or Barefoot Carmelites, is a Catholic Church mendicant order with roots in the hermit of the Desert Fathers. The order was established in 1593, pursuant to the reform of the Carmelites by two Spain saints, St....
     (1784-1812)
  • Manuel de S. Galdino, OFM Rif. (1812-1831)
  • José Maria da Silva Torres (1844-1849)
  • João Crisóstomo de Amorim Pessoa (1862-1874)
  • Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos
    Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos

    Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Goa.He was born September 18, 1837 in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, a son of Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos Esmeraldo Rolim de Moura and wife Augusta Correia Vasques Salvago de Brito de Olival....
     (1875-1879)
  • António Sebastião Valente (1882-1886)


Patriarchs of the East Indies

  • António Sebastião Valente (1886-1908)
  • Mateus de Oliveira Xavier (1909-1929)
  • Teotónio Emanuel Ribeiro Vieira de Castro (1929-1940)
  • José da Costa Nunes
    José da Costa Nunes

    Jos? Cardinal da Costa Nunes was a Portugal prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Macau from 1920 to 1940, Patriarch of the East Indies from 1940 to 1953, and was elevated to the Cardinal in 1962....
     (1940-1953)
  • José Vieira Alvernaz (1953-1975)
  • Raul Nicolau Gonçalves (1978-2004)
  • Filipe Neri Ferrão
    Filipe Neri Ferrão

    Filipe Neri Ant?nio Sebasti?o do Ros?rio Ferr?o is the seventh Roman Catholic Patriarch of the East Indies and thirty-fifth Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Goa and Daman, India....
     (2004-Present)


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