Archdiocese of Évora


The Archdiocese of Évora is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Portugal with Évora Cathedral as its see.
It has as suffragans the diocese of Beja and diocese of Faro. The current archbishop of Évora is Francisco José Vilas Boas Senra de Faria Coelho and the archbishop emeritus of Évora is José Francisco Sanches Alves.
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History

Évora was raised to archiepiscopal rank in 1544, at which time it was given as suffragans the diocese of Leiria and diocese of Portalegre; in 1570 and later were added the diocese of Silves, diocese of Ceuta, diocese of Congo, diocese of São Tomé, diocese of Funchal, diocese of Cabo Verde, and diocese of Angra.
Its bishop, Quintianus, was present at the Synod of Elvira early in the fourth century. There exists no complete list of his successors for the next two centuries, though some are known from ancient diptychs. In 584 the Visigothic king, Liuvigild, incorporated with his state the Kingdom of the Suebi, to which Évora had hitherto belonged. From the sixth and seventh centuries there remain a few Christian inscriptions pertaining to Évora. In one of them has been interpolated the name of a Bishop Julian ; he is, however, inadmissible. Thenceforth the episcopal list is known from the reign of Reccared to the Islamic invasion, after which the succession is quite unknown for four centuries and a half, with the exception of the epitaph of a Bishop Daniel.
Until the reconquest by Afonso I of Portugal, Évora was suffragan to the archdiocese of Mérida. Under this king it became suffragan to the archdiocese of Braga, despite the protests of the Archbishops of Compostella, administrators of Mérida. In 1274, however, the latter succeeded in bringing Évora within their jurisdiction. Finally, it became suffragan to the archdiocese of Lisbon from 1394 to 1544, when it was made an archbishopric.
Portuguese writers have maintained that the first bishop of Évora was St. Mantius, a Roman, and a disciple of Jesus Christ, sent by the Apostles into the Iberian Peninsula as a missionary of the Gospel.

Episcopal ordinaries

Suffragan bishops

Ancient diocese

  • The earliest bishops are legendary:
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  • Quintianus
  • Julian
  • Zosimus I
  • Sisiclus
  • Abientius
  • Zosimus II
  • Peter
  • Tructemund
  • Arcontius

Restored diocese

  1. Soeiro I
  2. Fernando I
  3. Paio
  4. Soeiro II
  5. Fernando II
  6. Martinho I Pires
  7. Durando Pais
  9. Pedro I Colaço
  10. Fernando III Martins
  11. Rodrigo Pires, elect
  13. Gonçalo Pereira, elect
  14. Pedro II
  15. Martinho II Afonso
  17. João I Afonso
  18. João II Gomes de Chaves
  19. Martinho III Gil de Basto
  21. Martinho IV
  23. Álvaro I Afonso
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  25. Vasco I
  27. Vasco II Perdigão
  28. Jorge da Costa
  29. Luís Pires
  33. Afonso III

Metropolitan archbishops