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António Sebastião Valente

António Sebastião Valente
Archbishop of Goa
Patriarch of the East Indies
Reproduced from Revista Occidente, photo by Luís de Campos (21 March 1882)
Personal details
Born(1846-01-20)20 January 1846
El Puerto de Santa María, Spain
Died25 January 1908(1908-01-25) (aged 62)
Goa, India
DenominationRoman Catholic
Coat of armsAntónio Sebastião Valente's coat of arms

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

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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

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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

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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

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  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ "CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Goa".

Sources

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