Patriarchate of East Indies Patriarchatus Indiarum Orientalium | |
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| Location | |
| Country | India |
| Territory | Goa andDaman India |
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| Denomination | Catholic Church |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | 1886 |
| Archdiocese | Archdiocese of Goa and Daman |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Leo XIV |
| Patriarch | Filipe Neri Ferrão |
TheTitular Patriarch of the East Indies (Latin:Patriarcha Indiarum Orientalium;Patriarchatus Indiarum Orientalium for Titular Patriarchate of theEast Indies) in theCatholichierarchy is the title of theArchbishop of Goa and Daman inIndia; another of his titles isthePrimate of the East. Unlike thepatriarchs and themajor archbishops of theEastern Catholic Churchessui juris, the Patriarch of the East Indies is within theLatin Church similar to the residential LatinPatriarchs of Venice,Lisbon andJerusalem, enjoying only an honorary position. Like thePatriarch of the West Indies, the Patriarch of the East Indies is a titular patriarchate unlike the residential Latin Catholic Patriarchs. The title is attached to the Archbishop of Goa and Daman, the diocesanordinary of theArchdiocese of Goa and Daman and themetropolitan archbishop of the Province of Goa and Daman.
This title of Patriarch or Primate of theEast Indies was conferred upon the Archbishop of Goa as a result of aconcordat between theHoly See and theCrown of Portugal; concerning the link between religious and political aspects ofPortuguese India, known as thePadroado system. Later, with Portugal's decline as a colonial power, a difficult period resulted that was resolved by a further agreement by which Portugal renounced its rights of patronage. In this way the episcopal appointments in actual or former Portuguese colonial territory reverted to the common provisions of Latin ecclesiological law, with no intermediary between them and the Holy See. As regards India, this meant that the Holy See was free to make appointments to the episcopate in regions such asBritish Bombay.[citation needed]
The later isolation of the territory ofGoa and Damaon as enclaves in India prior to the invasion of Indian forces in 1961 accounts for the fact that the Archbishop of Goa for a number of decades was immediately subject to the Holy See and had nosuffragan dioceses. In the more distant past the archbishop did have a truemetropolitan jurisdiction, with suffragan dioceses. These, however, were progressively stripped away or suppressed, the final suffragan diocese in India was the Diocese of Damaon, which was merged with theBishopric of Goa on May 1, 1928, to form the presentarchdiocese. The archdiocese formally lost its status as a metropolitan see on January 1, 1975, when the Dioceses ofMacao andDili were transferred from the province of Goa. On November 25, 2006Pope Benedict XVI elevated it again to a metropolitan archdiocese, with theDiocese of Sindhudurg as its suffragan.[citation needed]
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| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Patriarchate |
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| 1 |  | DomAntónio Sebastião Valente (1846–1908) | 1886–1908 |
| 2 |  | DomMateus de Oliveira Xavier (1858–1929) | 1909–1929 |
| 3 | .png) | DomTeotónio Emanuel Ribeiro Vieira de Castro (1859–1940) | 1929–1940 |
| 4 |  | DomJosé da Costa Nunes (1880–1976) | 1940–1953 |
| 5 |  | DomJosé Vieira Alvernaz (1898–1986) | 1953–1975 |
| 6 |  | DomRaul Nicolau Gonçalves (1927–2022) | 1978–2004 |
| 7 | _(cropped).jpg) | DomFilipe Neri António Sebastião do Rosário Ferrão (1953–) | 2004–Present |
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