António Sebastião Valente
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António Sebastião Valente | |
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Archbishop of Goa Patriarch of the East Indies | |
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Born | |
Died | 25 January 1908 Goa, India | (aged 62)
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
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Dom Sebastião António Valente (20 January 1846[1] - 25 January 1908) was a Catholic archbishop and Portuguese colonial administrator, the first Patriarch of the East Indies.
Biography
[edit]Born in El Puerto de Santa María, province of Cadiz (Spain), he was the son of Maria João Valente and Bridget Medeiros, a native of Mértola, Portugal. He attended primary school in Beja, graduated in Coimbra and taught in the Seminaries of Viseu and Santarém. He was ordained a deacon on 23 September 1871, and on 25 May 1872 ordained a priest.[1]
Consecrated Archbishop
[edit]His consecration as the Archbishop of Goa and the Primate of the East was by Cardinal Gaetano Aloisi Masella,[1] Titular Archbishop of Neocaesarea in Ponto. The Principal Co-Consecrators were Archbishop António José de Freitas Honorato, Titular Archbishop of Mitylene and Bishop José Dias Correia de Carvalho, Bishop of Santiago de Cabo Verde.[1]
In 1886, with the elevation of the Goan archdiocese to the position of the Patriarchate of the East Indies, he became the first Patriarch of the East.
Chairman of the Governing Council
[edit]He exercised, in addition, for seven terms, the functions of the Chairman of the Government of Portuguese India—Presidente do Conselho de Governo do Estado Português da Índia (1886, 1889, 1892, 1894, 1897 and 1905).[citation needed]
He died, while in office as Patriarch, on 25 January 1908.[citation needed]
NewAdvent.org says:[2] "In recent times one provincial council was held (1894) by Dom Antonio S. Valente, in which seventy-nine decrees were framed."
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bvalente.html Archived 2015-09-05 at the Wayback Machine | Google cache of catholic-hierarchy.org page, accessed on August 9, 2015
- ^ "CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Goa".