D. Frei Inácio de São Caetano,

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(31 July 1718 – 29 November 1788), was a Portuguese scholar, theologian, and church leader. He was appointed the first bishop of Penafiel when the diocese was erected by Pope Clement XIV in 1770; when the diocese was suppressed eight years later, he was promoted to Titular Archbishop of

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. Inácio de São Caetano occupied many prestigious positions in the Portuguese court: initially the protégé of Joseph of Braganza, Archbishop of Braga, in 1759 he was named confessor of the

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(who would later accede to the throne as Maria I of Portugal); in 1787 he was made Inquisitor General of Portugal. The death of the Archbishop of Thessalonica, as the Queen's confessor, in 1788 has been cited as one of the many contributing factors (along with the death of her husband

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in 1786, of her son and heir Joseph, Prince of Brazil in 1788, and the beginning of the

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in 1789) that led to the Queen's mental deterioration that forced her surviving heir apparent and eventual successor Prince John to take over the government in her name as regent.

Works

*''O Portugal agradecido'' (1761) *
Gratidão desempenhada
' (1762) *''Ideia dum perfeito pároco, instruindo as suas ovelhas na solida piedade'' (1772) *''Dissertação critica e apologética da autenticidade do primeiro concilio bracarense, celebrado em 411'' (1773) *''Compendio de teologia moral evangélica, para formar dignos ministros do sacramento da penitencia, etc.'' (1776)

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