Roman Catholic Diocese of Elvas
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Elvas was a Latin diocese in Portugal, located in the city Elvas, district of Portalegre in the Alentejo region and in the ecclesiastical province of Évora.
History
- Erected on 9 June 1570 as Diocese of Elvas / Dioecesis Elvensis on canonical territory split off from Metropolitan the Archdiocese of Évora, apparently as its suffragan.)
- 1818 September 30: Suppressed, its territory being reassigned part back its Metropolitan of Evora, part to Diocese of Portalegre)
Episcopal ordinaries
;Suffragan Bishops of Elvas- António Mendes de Carvalho
- António de Matos de Noronha
- Rui Pires da Veiga, also Bishop of Leiria
- Lourenço de Távora, Capuchin Friars Minor, previously Bishop of Funchal
- Sebastião de Matos de Noronha next Metropolitan Archbishop of Braga
- Manuel da Cunha
- João de Melo, next Bishop of Viseu, Bishop of Coimbra
- Alexandre da Silva Botelho
- Valerio de São Raimundo, Order of Preachers
- Jerónimo Soares, next Bishop of Viseu
- Bento de Beja Noronha
- António Pereira da Silva, next Bishop of Faro
- Nuno da Cunha e Ataíde, later Titular Bishop of Targa, created Cardinal-Priest of S. Anastasia
- Pedro de Lencastre, Cistercian Order
- Fernando de Faro
- João de Sousa de Castelo-Branco
- Diego Col, Oratory of Filip Neri
- Pedro de Villas Boas e Sampaio
- Baltazar de Faria Villas-Boas
- Lourenço de Lencastre, next Bishop of Leiria
- João Teixeira de Carvalho
- Diego de Jesus Jardim, Hieronymites, previously Bishop of Olinda
- José da Costa e Torres, next metropolitan Archbishop of Braga ; previously Bishop of Funchal
- José Joaquim da Cunha Azeredo Coutinho, previously Bishop of Olinda
- Joaquim de Meneses e Ataide, Augustinians, previously Bishop of São Tomé de Meliapor
- Ângelo de Nossa Senhora da Boa-Morte, Order of Friars Minor .
Titular see
In 1969 the diocese was nominally restored as Titular See of Elvas.It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal rank :
- André Jacquemin as emeritate, died 1975; previously Titular Bishop of Cartennæ as Coadjutor Bishop of Bayeux, succeeding as Bishop of Bayeux
- Raymond-Joseph-Louis Bouchex as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Aix ; next Metropolitan Archbishop of Avignon ; died 2010