Metropolitan Archdiocese of Goa and Daman Archidioecesis Goanae et Damanensis Gõy ani Damanv Mha-Dhormprant | |
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 TheSé Catedral de Santa Catarina in Old Goa | |
| Location | |
| Country |  India |
| Ecclesiastical province | Goa andDaman |
| Coordinates | 15°30′08″N73°54′42″E / 15.50222°N 73.91167°E /15.50222; 73.91167 |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 4,194 km2 (1,619 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2013) 1,600,000 620,570 (35.2%) |
| Parishes | 167 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Rite | Latin Rite |
| Cathedral | Cathedral of St Catherine of Alexandria in Old Goa |
| Patron saint | Saint Joseph Vaz |
| Secular priests | 701 |
| Language | Konkani,English,Marathi,Portuguese,[1]Gujarati,Hindi |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Filipe Neri Ferrão |
| Suffragan | Diocese of Sindhudurg |
| Auxiliary Bishops | Simião Purificação Fernandes |
| Website | |
| https://archgoadaman.com/ | |
TheRoman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Goa and Daman (Latin:Archidioecesis Goanae et Damanensis,Goan Konkani:Gõy ani Damanv Mha-Dhormprant,Portuguese:Arquidiocese de Goa e Damão) encompasses theGoa state and theDamaon territory in theKonkan region, by the westcoast of India. Theecclesiastical province of Goa andDamaon includes asuffragan diocese, theSindhudurg Diocese that comprises theMalvani areas of (central Konkan). The Archbishop of Goa also holds the titles of Primate of the East and Patriarch of theEast Indies. The beginnings lie in thePadroado system ofPortuguese Goa and Damaon, in the early 1900s theprimatial see was transferred back to theSacred Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, as thePadroado system of theIndo-Portuguese era was being dismantled.
It is the oldestbishopric of theLatin Rite of worship in terms of activity in theEast Indies, with its origins linked to thePortuguese discoveries, and their subsequent arrival at theSt Mary's islands andCalicut, on the coast of theMalabar region.
The current Metropolitan Archbishop and Patriarch of the East Indies isFilipe Neri Ferrão.[2]
The archdiocese consists of theState of Goa and theunion territory ofDadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu in India.[3] As of 2014, it pastorally served 641,231 Catholics (31.0% of 2,067,200 total) on 4,194 km2 in167 parishes and 124 missions with 715 priests (410 diocesan, 305 religious), 1,503 lay religious (538 brothers, 965sisters) and 80 seminarians.
The Metropolitan has a singlesuffragan see:
After thePortuguese conquest of Goa byAfonso de Albuquerque in 1510, KingManuel I built a chapel there in honour ofSt. Catherine, named patron of the city in 1518. Christians in the region were given into the charge ofDom Duarte Nunes [pt] OP, theFranciscanbishop of thetitular see of Laodicea. He governed until 1527 when he was succeeded by DomFernando Vaqueiro [pt] OFM, theFranciscan titular bishop of Aureopolis, from 1529 to 1535.[4]
KingJohn III of Portugal commissioned the construction of acathedral in Goa andPope Clement VII founded the Diocese of Goa on 31 January 1533, with thepapal bull titledRomani Pontificis Circumspectio.[4][5] The jurisdiction of the new diocese at the time stretched from theCape of Good Hope toChina andJapan.[6] On 3 November 1534 the creation of the diocese was confirmed by theAequum reputamus [pt] bull ofPope Paul III, sinceClement VII's death had prevented the publication of its establishment. The diocese was originally asuffragan of thediocese of Funchal.
At the request of KingSebastian, on 4 February 1557Pope Paul IV separated the Goan diocese from theecclesiastical province ofLisbon and raised it to a metropolitan archdiocese, with the suffragan dioceses ofCochin andMalacca.[4][7] In the course of time other dioceses were included in the metropolitan area of Goa:Macau,Funai inJapan,Cranganore andMeliapor in India,Nanjing andBeijing inChina, andMozambique in Africa. Daman in India is still included in Goa.[8]
With the brief of 13 December 1572 PopeGregory XIII granted the archbishop of Goa the title of Primate of the East.[9][10] This is because the diocese of Goa was the first diocese of thePadroado in Asia. By 1857, Goa had gained several suffragan dioceses in the Indian subcontinent but retained onlyMacau andMozambique outside that geographical area.[11]
On 23 January 1886, PopeLeo XIII, through the bullHumanae Salutis Auctor, invested the archbishop of Goa with the honorary title ofPatriarch of the East Indies. With the same bull, the diocese of Daman was established, to which was attached the title of theArchdiocese of Cranganore, that had been suppressed by the 24 April 1838Multa praeclare decree ofPope Gregory XVI. These provisions had already been made in the concordat between the Holy See and Portugal on 23 June 1886.[12] The honorary title of patriarch recognised the primacy of honour of the archbishop of Goa among all the bishops of the East and the historical vastness of his jurisdiction, at a time when his jurisdiction was reduced. He also enjoyed the privilege of presiding over all the synods of the East Indies
When the diocese of Daman was dissolved on 1 May 1928 withInter Apostolicam, the title of Cranganore was attached to the Goa archdiocese. Thus, the archbishop of Goa came to be the titular archbishop of Cranganore.
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In 1940,Dili (inEast Timor) was elevated to a diocese and placed as suffragan under Goa; Mozambique was in the same year spun off from the metropolitan archdiocese. In 1953 the archdiocese of Goa lost the suffragan dioceses of Cochin, Meliampor and Canara following the ecclesiastical territorial reorganisation of the new Indian state.
On 19 December 1961, theIndian Union annexed the territories of Goa, and Daman and Diu.[13] The following year the Patriarch ArchbishopJosé Vieira Alvernaz left the territory. In 1965, the religious jurisdiction of Diu was entrusted to the Missionary Society of StFrancis Xavier. The complexities of annexing Portuguese-ruled territories meant that the Vatican did not accept the resignation of the last patriarch until 1975.[citation needed] The dioceses of Dili and Macau were also de-linked from the ecclesiastical province and placed directly under the Holy See.
With theQuoniam Archdioecesi bull of 30 January 1978, Pope Paul VI appointed BishopRaul Nicolau Gonçalves as Archbishop of Goa and Daman, also titledad honoremPatriarch of the East Indies. ByInter Capital of 12 December 2003,Pope John Paul II appointed Rev.Filipe Neri Ferrao Archbishop of Goa and Daman, also granting him the honorary patriarch title.
The Archdiocese of Goa and Daman remained—until 25 November 2006—as just an archdiocese, since the archdiocese had had no suffragan dioceses since 1 January 1975, when Macao and Dili were separated from it. On 25 November 2006, PopeBenedict XVI withCum Christi Evangelii made the diocese of Sindhudurg a suffragan of Goa and Daman, together with which it formed a new ecclesiastical province.
The civil district ofNorth Kanara (Uttara Kannada) was part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Goa and Daman till 19 September 1953 when the NewRoman Catholic Diocese of Belgaum was erected. Two civil districts, Belgaum and North Kanara, were separated from the Archdiocese of Goa and two other civil districts, Dharwad and Bijapur, were taken from the Diocese of Poona to form the Diocese of Belgaum.
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| Name | Periods | Notes | |
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| Archbishops | |||
| 34º | Filipe Neri do Rosário Ferrão | 2004–present | Second Goan Patriarch of the East Indies and Archbishop of Goa and Daman |
| 33º | Raul Nicolau Gonçalves | 1978–2004 | First Goan Patriarch of the East Indies and Archbishop of Goa and Daman |
| 32º | José Vieira Alvernaz | 1953–1975 | Last Archbishop of Portuguese period Former Bishop Of Cochin |
| - | José Vieira Alvernaz | 1950-1953 | Archbishop-coadjutor |
| 31º | José da Costa Nunes | 1940–1953 | Later Cardinal |
| 30º | Teotónio Manuel Ribeiro Vieira de Castro | 1929–1940 | |
| 29º | Mateus de Oliveira Xavier | 1909–1929 | |
| 28º | António Sebastião Valente | 1882-1908 | first Patriarch of the East Indies |
| 27º | Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos | 1875-1880 | |
| 26º | João Crisóstomo de Amorim Pessoa | 1862-1874 | Later archbishop ofBraga |
| 25º | José Maria da Silva Torres | 1844-1851 | |
| 24º | Frei Manuel de São Galdino, O.F.M. | 1812-1831 | |
| - | Frei Manuel de São Galdino, O.F.M. | 1804-1812 | Archbishop-coadjutor |
| 23º | Frei Manuel de Santa Catarina,O.C.D. | 1784-1812 | |
| 22º | Frei Francisco da Assunção e Brito, O.S.A. | 1773-1783 | |
| 21º | António Taveira da Neiva Brum da Silveira | 1750-1773 | |
| 20º | FreiLourenço de Santa Maria e Melo, O.F.M. | 1741-1750 | Later archbishop-bishop of Faro |
| 19º | Frei Eugénio de Trigueiros, O.S.A. | 1741 | Died before taking office. |
| 18º | Frei Inácio de Santa Teresa, O.S.A. | 1721-1740 | |
| 17º | Sebastião de Andrade Pessanha | 1715-1721 | |
| 16º | Frei Agostinho da Anunciação, O.C. | 1690-1713 | |
| 15º | Frei Alberto de São Gonçalo da Silva, O.S.A. | 1686-1688 | |
| 14º | Manuel de Sousa Meneses | 1680-1684 | |
| 13º | Frei António Brandão, O.C. | 1674-1678 | |
| 12º | Frei Cristóvão da Silveira, O.S.A. | 1670-1673 | |
| 11º | Frei Francisco dos Mártires, O.F.M. | 1635-1652 | |
| 10º | Frei Manuel Teles de Brito, O.P. | 1631-1633 | |
| 9º | Frei Sebastião de São Pedro, O.S.A. | 1624-1629 | |
| 8º | Frei Cristóvão de Sá e Lisboa, O.S.H. | 1612-1622 | |
| 7º | Frei Aleixo de Meneses O.S.A. | 1595-1612 | Later archbishop of Braga and viceroy of Portugal |
| 6º | Frei Mateus de Medina, O. Carm. | 1588-1593 | |
| 5º | Frei João Vicente da Fonseca, O.P. | 1583-1586 | |
| 4º | Frei Henrique de Távora e Brito, O.P. | 1578-1581 | |
| 3º | Gaspar Jorge de Leão Pereira | 1571-1576 | reappointed |
| 2º | FreiJorge Temudo,O.P. | 1567-1571 | |
| 1º | Gaspar Jorge de Leão Pereira | 1558-1567 | |
| Bishops | |||
| - | Filipe do Rosário Ferrão | 1993-2004 | Auxiliary Bishop |
| - | Raul Nicolau Gonçalves | 1967-1978 | Auxiliary Bishop |
| - | Francisco Xavier da Piedade Rebelo | 1963-1966 | Auxiliary bishop,apostolic administrator sede plena between 1966 and 1972. |
| - | António Joaquim de Medeiros | 1882-1884 | Auxiliary Bishop after bishop of Macau |
| - | Tomás Gomes de Almeida | 1879-1883 | Auxiliary Bishop |
| - | Joaquim de Santa Rita Botelho | 1851 - ???? | Bishop of Cochin, head vicar and governor of Goa archbishop |
| - | Pedro da Silva | 1688-1690 | Bishop of Cochin, as Apostolic Administrator |
| - | Frei Miguel da Cruz Rangel, O.P. | 1634-1635 | Bishop of Cochin, as Apostolic Administrator |
| - | FreiJoão da Rocha,S.J. | 1630-1631 | titular bishop ofHierapolis in Phrygia, as Apostolic Administrator |
| - | Domingos Torrado, O.E.S.A. | 1605-1612 | Auxiliary Bishop, titular bishop of Fisicula |
| - | Diego da Conceição de Araújo, O.E.S.A. | 1595-1597 | Auxiliary Bishop, titular bishop of Calama |
| - | André de Santa Maria, O.F.M. | 1593-1595 | Bishop of Cochin, as Apostolic Administrator |
| - | Jorge de Santa Luzia, O.P. | 1559-1560 | Bishop of Malacca, as Apostolic Administrator |
| 2º | FreiJoão de Albuquerque,O.F.M. | 1539-1553 | First resident bishop of Goa |
| 1º | Francisco de Melo | 1533-1536 | First bishop of Goa, did not take possession. |
| Priests and friars as administrators | |||
| - | António João de Ataíde | 1839-1844 | priest |
| - | António Feliciano de Santa Rita Carvalho | 1837-1839 | head vicar and governor of the archbishopric of Goa |
| - | Paulo António Dias da Conceição | 1835-1837 | priest, Cathedral administrator |
| - | José Paulo da Costa Pereira de Almeida | 1831-1835 | priest, Dean of the Cathedral |
| - | Gonçalo Veloso | 1629 - 1630 | head vicar |
| - | FreiDomingos Torrado (also Domingos Terrado or Domingos da Trinidade) | 1612 | governor |
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