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The Patriarchate of Lisbon (Latin: Patriarchatus Ulixbonensis sive Lisbonensis) is an Patriarchal See of the Catholic Church in Portugal. Erected as the Diocese of Lisbon in the 4th Century, the Diocese was elevated to an Archdiocese in 1392. In 1716, the Archdiocese was elevated to a Patriarchal See, one of the very few in all of the Catholic Church.
The Archdiocese is the metropolitan of 7 suffragan dioceses: Angra, Guarda, Leiria-Fátima, Portalegre-Castelo Branco, Santarém, Setúbal.
The current Archbishop is José da Cruz Policarpo, appointed in March of 1998.

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, even if there are references to Mozarabic bishops, of the Mozarabic Rite, in that period. The diocese was restored when the city was recaptured by Afonso I of Portugal during the Second Crusade in 1147 in the 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. One of the others Portuguese archbishoprics, Braga in the north, is older: 1104, and claimed to be the primate over all Portugal and northwest Spain (including Santiago archbishopric).

Precursors in the see

Bishops of Olissipo

Historical

Saint Manços or Mantius in Latin (36)
Filipe Filoteu or Philippus Philotas in Latin (92)
Petrus (I) (166)
Petrus (II) (213)
Jorgius or Georgius (260)
Petrus (III) (297)
Saint Gens
Januarius (300)
St. Potamius (c. 356)
Antonius (373)
Neobridius (430)
Julius (461)
Azulanus
Joannus (500)
Eolus (536)
Nestorianus (578)
Paulus (589)
Goma or Gomarel (610)
Viaric, Ubalic or Dialic (633, 636, 638)
Nefrigius or Nefredus (646)
Caesarius or Caesar (656)
Theodoricus (666)
Ara (683)
Landericus (688, 693)
Ildephonsus (8th century)
- vacant from 716 to 1147

Bishops of Lisbon

Gilbert of Hastings (1147-1163)

Álvaro (1164-1184)

Soeiro (I) (1185-1210)

Soeiro (II) Viegas (1210-1232)

Vicente (1233)

Paio Pais (1234)

João (I) Falberto (1234)

Estêvão (I) Gomes (1234-1237)

João (II) (1239-1241)

Ricardo Guilherme (1241)

Arias Vasques (1241-1258)

Mateus (1258-1282)

Estêvão (II) Anes de Vasconcelos (1282-1290)

Domingos Anes Jardo (1290-1293)

João (III) Martins de Soalhães (1294-1313)

Friar Estêvão (III) (1313-1322)

D. Gonçalo (Gonçalves) Pereira (1322-1326)

João (IV) Afonso de Brito (1326-1342)

Vasco Martins (1342-1344)

Étienne (IV) de la Garde (1344-1348)

Thibaud de Castillon (1348-1356)

Reginald de Maubernard (1356-1358)

Lourenço Rodrigues (1359-1364)

Pedro Gomes Barroso (1364-1369)

Fernando Álvares (1369-1371)

Vasco (1371)

Agapito Colonna (1371-1378)

Jean (V) de Agoult (1379), nominee by the Roman Pope; therefore bishop of Aix-en-Provence

Martinho de Zamora (1379-1383), nominee by the antipope in Avignon; murdered by the people during the 1383-1385 Crisis

João (VI) Guterres (1381-1382), nominee by the Roman Pope, therefore, bishop of Dax, Gascony

João (VII) Anes (c. 1383-1394)

Archbishops of Lisbon

João (I) Anes (1394-1402), cardinal

João (II) Afonso or Esteves da Azambuja (1402-1415), cardinal

Diogo Álvares de Brito (1418-1422), not effective

D. Pedro de Noronha (1424-1452)

D. Luís Coutinho (1452-1453)

D. Jaime Cardinal of Portugal (1455-1459)

Afonso (I) Nogueira (1459-1464)

Jorge (I) Cardinal da Costa (1464-1500), Cardinal of Alpedrinha

Martinho da Costa (1500-1521)

D. Infant Afonso (II) Cardinal de Portugal (1523-1540)

D. Fernando de Menezes Coutinho de Vasconcelos (1540-1564)

D. Infant Henry Cardinal of Portugal (1564-1570)

D. Jorge (II) de Almeida (1570-1585)

D. Miguel de Castro (1586-1625), also bishop of Viseu

Afonso (III) Furtado de Mendonça (1626-1630)

D. João (III) Manoel (1632-1633)

D. Rodrigo da Cunha (1635-1643)

António de Mendonça (1670-1675)

Luís de Sousa (1675-1702), cardinal

João (IV) de Sousa (1703-1710), also Archbishop of Braga

Patriarchs of Lisbon

D. Tomás de Almeida (1716-1754)

D. José (I) Manoel da Câmara (1754-1758)

Francisco (I) de Saldanha da Gama (1758-1776)

Fernando de Sousa da Silva (1779-1786)

José (II) Francisco Miguel António de Mendoça (1786-1818)

D. Carlos da Cunha e Menezes (1819-1825)

Friar Patrício da Silva (1826-1840)

Friar Francisco (II) de São Luís (Francisco Justiniano) Saraiva (1840-1845)

Guilherme Henriques de Carvalho (1845-1857)

Manuel (I) Bento Cardinal Rodrigues da Silva (1858-1869)

Inácio do Nascimento Cardinal de Morais Cardoso (1871-1883)

José (III) Sebastião Cardinal de Almeida Neto (1883-1907)

António (I) Cardinal Mendes Belo (1907-1929)

Manuel (II) Cardinal Gonçalves Cerejeira (1929-1971)

António (II) Cardinal Ribeiro (1971-1998)

José (IV) Cardinal da Cruz Policarpo (1998-Present)

Sources, References and External links

Giga-Catholic Information

Patriarch of Lisbon

at catholic-hierarchy.org

Official website

(in Portuguese)

Westermann, Großer Atlas zur Weltgeschichte

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