The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Goa and Daman ( la, Archidioecesis Goanae et Damanensis, gom, Gõy ani Damanv Mha-Dhormprant, pt, Arquidiocese de Goa e Damão) encompasses the

Goa state Goa () is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats. It is located between the Indian states of Maharashtra to the north and Karnataka to th ...

and the

Damaon territory Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu is a union territory in India. The territory was constituted through the merger of the former territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. Plans for the proposed merger were announced by the ...

in the

Konkan region The Konkan ( kok, कोंकण) or Kokan () is a stretch of land by the western coast of India, running from Damaon in the north to Karwar in the south; with the Arabian Sea to the west and the Deccan plateau in the east. The hinterland ...

, by the west coast of India. The

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of Goa and

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includes a

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, the Sindhudurg Diocese that comprises the

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areas of (central Konkan). The Archbishop of Goa also holds the titles of Primate of the East and Patriarch of the

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, also hold the title of the Syrian Catholic Primate of the

Archdiocese of Cranganore The Archdiocese of Cranganore or Cranganor and Angamaly was a latinised Syriac Padroado Archdiocese in Kodungallur, Kerala, India.

. The beginnings lie in the ''

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'' system of

Portuguese Goa and Damaon The State of India ( pt, Estado da Índia), also referred as the Portuguese State of India (''Estado Português da Índia'', EPI) or simply Portuguese India (), was a state of the Portuguese Empire founded six years after the discovery of a se ...

, in the early 1900s the

primatial see Primate () is a title or rank bestowed on some important archbishops in certain Christian churches. Depending on the particular tradition, it can denote either jurisdictional authority (title of authority) or (usually) ceremonial precedence (ti ...

was transferred back to the

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, as the ''Padroado'' system of the

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era was being dismantled. It is the oldest

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of the

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of worship in terms of activity in the

, with its origins linked to the

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, and their subsequent arrival at the

St Mary's islands St. Mary's Islands, also known as Coconut Island and Thonsepar, are a set of four small islands in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Malpe in Udipi, Karnataka, India. They are known for their distinctive geological formation of columnar rhyolit ...

and

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, on the coast of the

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. The current Metropolitan Archbishop and Patriarch of the East Indies is

Filipe Neri Ferrão Dom Filipe Neri António Sebastião do Rosário Ferrão (born 20 January 1953) is an Indian prelate of the Catholic Church. He has served as Archbishop of Goa and Daman since 2004, and previously as an auxiliary bishop of the same archdioces ...

Special churches

* The archbishop's cathedral see, the

Se Cathedral The Sé Catedral de Santa Catarina, known as Se Cathedral, is the cathedral of the Latin Rite Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Goa and Daman and the seat of the Patriarch of the East Indies. It is part of the World Heritage Site, Churches and conv ...

, or Sé Catedral de Santa Catarina, is in the city of

Old Goa Old Goa ( Konkani: ; pt, Velha Goa, translation='Old Goa') is a historical site and city situated on the southern banks of the River Mandovi, within the Tiswadi ''taluka'' (''Ilhas'') of North Goa district, in the Indian state of Goa. The ci ...

Goa Goa () is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats. It is located between the Indian states of Maharashtra to the north and Karnataka to the ...

. *The diocese also has a

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, the

Basilica of Bom Jesus The Basilica of Bom Jesus ( pt, Basílica do Bom Jesus; Konkani: ''Borea Jezuchi Bajilika'') is a Catholic Church, Catholic basilica located in the Goa situated in the Konkan region of India. It is both a pilgrimage centre and also the most ...

. The

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composed of the

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falls under its ecclesiastical jurisdiction. * The former Cathedral of Bom Jesus of the now-suppressed Diocese of Daman in Daman

Territory and statistics

The archdiocese consists of the

State of Goa Goa () is a States and union territories of India, state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan Plateau, Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats. It is located between the Indian st ...

and the union territory of

Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu is a union territory in India. The territory was constituted through the merger of the former territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. Plans for the proposed merger were announced by the ...

in India. As of 2014, it pastorally served 641,231 Catholics (31.0% of 2,067,200 total) on 4,194 km² in 167 parishes and 124 missions with 715 priests (410 diocesan, 305 religious), 1,503 lay religious (538 brothers, 965

sisters A sister is a woman or a girl who shares one or more parents with another individual; a female sibling. The male counterpart is a brother. Although the term typically refers to a familial relationship, it is sometimes used endearingly to refer to ...

) and 80 seminarians.

Ecclesiastical province

The Metropolitan has a single

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see: *

Roman Catholic Diocese of Sindhudurg The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sindhudurg (''Dioecesis Sindhudurgiensis'') in India was created on July 5, 2005, when it was split from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Poona. It was a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Bombay until 25 November ...

, which includes the districts of

Sindhudurg Sindhudurg Fort (Marathi pronunciation: in̪d̪ʱud̪uɾɡ is a historical fort that occupies an island in the Arabian Sea, just off the coast of Maharashtra in Western India. The fort was built by Shivaji Maharaj.The fortress lies on the sh ...

Ratnagiri Ratnagiri (IAST:Ratnāgirī ; �ət̪n̪aːɡiɾiː is a port city on the Arabian Sea coast in Ratnagiri District in the southwestern part of Maharashtra, India. The district is a part of Konkan division of Maharashtra. The city is known for ...

and

Kolhapur Kolhapur () is a city on the banks of the Panchganga River in the southern part of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the administrative headquarter of the Kolhapur district. In, around 2 C.E. Kolapur's name was 'Kuntal'. Kolhapur is kn ...

Maharashtra Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the List of states and union te ...

state, except the St. Francis Xavier parish in the city of Kolhapur. It was created on 5 July 2005, when its territory was split off from the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Poona The Roman Catholic Diocese of Pune ( la, Poonen(sis)) is a diocese located in the city of Pune in the Ecclesiastical province of Mumbai in India. The Poona Diocee consists of the civil districts of Pune, Satara, Solapur, Sangli & Kolhapur city ...

. It was a suffragan diocese of the

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until 25 November 2006, when

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transferred it to the newly established metropolitan province of Goa and Damão. Between 1975 and 2006 the Archbishop of Goa and Damão, having no suffragan, was not entitled to wear the

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History

After the

Portuguese conquest of Goa The Portuguese conquest of Goa occurred when the governor Afonso de Albuquerque captured the city in 1510 from the Adil Shahis. Goa became the capital of the Portuguese State of India which included possessions such as Fort Manuel, the territ ...

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in 1510, King

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built a chapel there in honour of St. Catherine, named patron of the city in 1518. Christians in the region were given into the charge of OP, the

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of the

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of Laodicea. He governed until 1527 when he was succeeded by Dom OFM, the

titular bishop of Aureopolis, from 1529 to 1535.Conselho Ultramarino, p.455 King

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commissioned the construction of a

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in Goa and

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founded the Diocese of Goa on 31 January 1533, with the papal bull titled ''Romani Pontificis Circumspectio''. The jurisdiction of the new diocese at the time stretched from the

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and

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. On 3 November 1534 the creation of the diocese was confirmed by the ' bull of

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, since

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's death had prevented the publication of its establishment. The diocese was originally a

of the

diocese of Funchal The Diocese of Funchal ( la, Dioecesis Funchalensis) was created originally on 12 June 1514, by bull ''Pro excellenti præeminentia'' of Pope Leo X, following the elevation of Funchal from a village to the status of city, by King Manuel I of Po ...

. At the request of King

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, on 4 February 1557

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separated the Goan diocese from the

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and raised it to a metropolitan archdiocese, with the suffragan dioceses of

Cochin Kochi (), also known as Cochin ( ) ( the official name until 1996) is a major port city on the Malabar Coast of India bordering the Laccadive Sea, which is a part of the Arabian Sea. It is part of the district of Ernakulam in the state of K ...

and

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. In the course of time other dioceses were included in the metropolitan area of Goa:

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Cranganore Kodungallur (; also Cranganore, Portuguese: Cranganor; formerly known as Mahodayapuram, Shingly, Vanchi, Muchiri, Muyirikkode, and Muziris) is a historically significant town situated on the banks of river Periyar on the Malabar Coast in Thr ...

and Meliapor in India,

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and

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, and

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in Africa. Daman in India is still included in Goa. With the brief of 13 December 1572 Pope

Gregory XIII Pope Gregory XIII ( la, Gregorius XIII; it, Gregorio XIII; 7 January 1502 – 10 April 1585), born Ugo Boncompagni, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 13 May 1572 to his death in April 1585. He is best known for ...

granted the archbishop of Goa the title of Primate of the East. This is because the diocese of Goa was the first diocese of the

in Asia. By 1857, Goa had gained several suffragan dioceses in the Indian subcontinent but retained only

and

outside that geographical area. On 23 January 1886, Pope

Leo XIII Pope Leo XIII ( it, Leone XIII; born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci; 2 March 1810 – 20 July 1903) was the head of the Catholic Church from 20 February 1878 to his death in July 1903. Living until the age of 93, he was the second-old ...

, through the bull ''Humanae Salutis Auctor'', invested the archbishop of Goa with the honorary title of

Patriarch of the East Indies The Titular Patriarch of the East Indies ( la, Patriarcha Indiarum Orientalium; for Titular Patriarchate of the East Indies) in the Catholic hierarchy is the title of the Archbishop of Goa and Daman in India; another of his titles is the Primat ...

. With the same bull, the diocese of Daman was established, to which was attached the title of the

Archdiocese of Cranganore The Archdiocese of Cranganore or Cranganor and Angamaly was a latinised Syriac Padroado Archdiocese in Kodungallur, Kerala, India.

, that had been suppressed by the 24 April 1838 ''Multa praeclare'' decree of

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. These provisions had already been made in the concordat between the Holy See and Portugal on 23 June 1886. 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 with ''Inter Apostolicam'', the title of Cranganore was attached to the Goa archdiocese. Thus, the archbishop of Goa came to be the titular archbishop of Cranganore. Goan Catholic Distribution (India)

In 1940,

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(in

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) 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, the Indian Union annexed the territories of Goa, and Daman and Diu. The following year the Patriarch Archbishop José Vieira Alvernaz left the territory. In 1965, the religious jurisdiction of Diu was entrusted to the Missionary Society of St

Francis Xavier Francis Xavier (born Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta; Latin: ''Franciscus Xaverius''; Basque: ''Frantzisko Xabierkoa''; French: ''François Xavier''; Spanish: ''Francisco Javier''; Portuguese: ''Francisco Xavier''; 7 April 15063 December 1 ...

. The complexities of annexing Portuguese-ruled territories meant that the Vatican did not accept the resignation of the last patriarch until 1975. The dioceses of Dili and Macau were also de-linked from the ecclesiastical province and placed directly under the Holy See. With the ''Quoniam Archdioecesi'' bull of 30 January 1978, Pope Paul VI appointed Bishop

Raul Nicolau Gonçalves Dom (title), Dom Raul Nicolau Gonçalves (15 June 1927 – 1 July 2022) was an Indian prelate. He was the first Goan Catholic, Goan catholic to be Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Goa and Daman, Archbishop of Goa and Patriarch of the East Indies.V ...

as Archbishop of Goa and Daman, also titled ''

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. By ''Inter Capital'' of 12 December 2003,

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appointed Rev.

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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, Pope

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with ''Cum 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 of

North Kanara Uttara Kannada is a district in the Indian state of Karnataka. Uttara Kannada District is a major coastal district of Karnataka, and currently holding the title of the largest district in Karnataka. It is bordered by the state of Goa and Bela ...

(Uttara Kannada) was part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Goa and Daman till 19 September 1953 when the New

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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. * 31 January 1533: Archdiocese of Goa established from the Diocese of Funchal * 4 February 1557: Diocese of Cochin established as a suffragan diocese * 4 February 1558: Established suffragan diocese – Diocese of Malacca * 4 February 1558: Promoted to Metropolitan Archdiocese of Goa * 1 May 1928: Renamed Metropolitan Archdiocese of Goa and Daman * 1 January 1976: Demoted to Archdiocese of Goa and Daman * 25 November 2006: Promoted to Metropolitan Archdiocese of Goa and Daman

Episcopal ordinaries

Saints and causes for canonisation

St. Bartholomew Bartholomew (Aramaic: ; grc, Βαρθολομαῖος, translit=Bartholomaîos; la, Bartholomaeus; arm, Բարթողիմէոս; cop, ⲃⲁⲣⲑⲟⲗⲟⲙⲉⲟⲥ; he, בר-תולמי, translit=bar-Tôlmay; ar, بَرثُولَماو� ...

* St. Francis Xavier evangelised in Goa and his body is in the state. * St.

Joseph Vaz Joseph Vaz ( Konkani: ''San Zuze Vaza''; pt, São José Vaz; kn, ಪವಿತ್ರಾ ಯೋಸೆಫ್ ವಾಸ್ ಸಂತರು ''Pavitra Yoseph Vaz Santaru''; ta, புனித யோசேப் வாஸ் முனிவர் ...

was a native of Benaulim. * The Martyrs of Cuncolim **Bl.

Rodolfo Acquaviva Rodolfo Acquaviva (2 October 1550 – 25 July 1583) was an Italian Jesuit missionary and priest in India who served the court of Akbar the Great from 1580 to 1583. He was killed in 1583 and beatified in 1893. Family Rodolfo Acquaviva was the ...

**Bl. Alphonsus Pacheco **Bl. Peter Berno **Bl. Anthony Francis **Bl. Francis Aranha *Some of the

205 Martyrs of Japan The were Christian missionaries and followers who were persecuted and executed for their faith in Japan, mostly during the Tokugawa shogunate period in the 17th century. Background Christian missionaries arrived with Francis Xavier and the ...

**Bl.

Miguel de Carvalho Miguel de Carvalho, SJ also known as Michael Carvalho, (1579 – 25 August 1624) was a Roman Catholic missionary from Portugal. He was beatified in July 1867 by Pope Pius IX.Fros SJ, Henryk ''Book of names and saints'', pp. 423–437, 2007 Bi ...

, ordained a priest in Goa **Bl. Francisco Pacheco, seminarian in Goa **Bl. John Baptist Zola, missionary in Goa **Bl. Balthasar de Torres, seminarian in Goa **Bl. Diogo Carvalho (Didacus Carvalho), seminarian in Goa **Bl. Pietro Paolo Navarra, ordained a priest in Goa **Bl. Joao Batisto Machado, seminarian in Goa * Bls.

Denis of the Nativity Pierre Berthelot, OCD (known in religion as Denis of the Nativity, or Dionysius; 12 December 1600, in Honfleur – 27 November 1638, in Sumatra) was a French sailor and cartographer in the service of the king of Portugal, and later Discalced Carme ...

(Pierre Berthelot) and

Redemptus of the Cross Redemptus of the Cross (also Redemptorus), (15 March 1598 – 27 November 1638) was a Portuguese lay brother in the Order of Discalced Carmelites. He was put to death along with other members of a group sent to Aceh by Portuguese authorities. Li ...

(Tomás Rodrigues da Cunha) * Bl.

Emmanuel d'Abreu Emmanuel d'Abreu was a Roman Catholic priest who joined the Jesuit order in 1724. He was deputed to Goa in 1733 and then in Macau in 1734. In March 1736, he was arrested in the kingdom of Tonkin (today's Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, ...

, SJ * Ven.

Agnelo de Souza Agnelo de Souza (born Agnelo Gustavo Adolfo de Souza; 21 January 1869 – 20 November 1927), was a Roman Catholic priest of the Society of the Missionaries of St. Francis Xavier, Pilar who performed missionary work in the province of Goa, then ...

* Fr. Jácome Gonsalves

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List of Indian Sees, from the Catholic Bishops Conference of India site

Data of the Archdiocese, from the UCAN site
* (for Chronology of Bishops) * (for Chronology of Bishops)
Official site of the Archdiocese of Goa and Daman
; Bibliography * Conselho Ultramarino.
Annaes do Conselho Ultramarino
'. Lisboa Imprensa Nacional, 1867. Capítulo: Ásia. *

Aleixo de Menezes Archbishop Aleixo de Menezes or Alexeu de Jesu de Meneses (25 January 1559 – 3 May 1617) was Roman Catholic Archbishop of Goa, Archbishop of Braga, Portugal, and Viceroy of Portugal during the Philippine Dynasty. Biographical sketch Aleixo was ...

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id=UPEqJWspkDIC Synodo Diocesano da Igreia e Bispado de Angamale
dos antigos christaos de Sam Thome das Serras do Malauar das partes da India Oriental celebrado pello Reuerendissimo Senhor Dom Frey Aleixo de Menezes Arcebispo Metropolitano de Goa, Primaz da India et partes Orientaes'', Coimbra: Officina de Diogo Gomez Loureyro, ''impressor da Universidade'', 1606. * Associação Maritima e Colonial.
Annaes Maritimos e Coloniaes
'. * Manoel José Gabriel Saldanha
História de Goa: política e arqueológica
'. Asian Educational Services, 1990. *

Alexandre Herculano Alexandre Herculano de Carvalho e Araújo (28 March 181013 September 1877) was a Portuguese novelist and historian. Early life Herculano's family had humble origins. One of his grandfathers was a foreman stonemason in the royal employ. Herculan ...

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A reacção ultramontana em Portugal
': ou, A Concordata de 21 de fevereiro. Lisboa: Typographia de José Baptista Morando, 1857. * Instituto Histórico, Geographico e Ethnographico do Brasil.
Revista trimensal do Instituto Historico, Geographico e Ethnographico do Brasil
' Rio de Janeiro: B. L. Garnier, 1866. vol.29. * Paiva, José Pedro.
Os bispos de Portugal e do Império: 1495-1777
' Coimbra: Universidade de Coimbra, 2006. * Ángel Santos Hernández, S.J.
''Las misiones bajo el patronato portugués''
https://books.google.com/books?id=N7HGOTXyfOEC&pg=PA116], Madrid 1977, pp. 116–117 * Konrad Eubel
''Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi'' vol. 3
, p. 204
vol. 4
pp. 195–196
vol. 5
p. 211
vol. 6
p. 227 ; Pontifical documents
''Aequum reputamus'' bull in ''Bullarium patronatus Portugalliae regum'', v I, p148–152
(in Latin)
''Etsi Sancta'' bull in ''Bullarium patronatus Portugalliae regum'', v I, pp.191–192
(in Latin)

bull (in Italian)
''Ad nominum''
bull, AAS 68 (1976), p. 307 (in Italian)

(in Latin)
Ereção da nova Província Eclesiástica de Goa e Damão
(in Portuguese) {{DEFAULTSORT:Goa And Daman, Roman Catholic Archdiocese Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Daman and Diu Roman Catholic dioceses in India Religious organizations established in 1533 Christianity in Goa

1533 establishments in Portuguese India __NOTOC__ Year 1533 (Roman numerals, MDXXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–June * January 25 – King Henry VIII of England formally but s ...

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