José Dias Correia de Carvalho (19 December 1830 - 2 July 1911) was a Portuguese bishop, he was bishops of Santiago de Cabo Verde and

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Biography

Carvalho went to the seminary in

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(what was part of the

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, now it is in the

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), the seminary no longer exists today. He finished his studies at the

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and was ordinated as priest on 10 June 1854. From February 1865 until June 1871 Carvalho was pro-head of the

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which was vacant with the transfer of its bishop D. António da Trindade de Vasconcelos Pereira de Melo for the

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in 1863 and had chosen not to accept in part of the Holy See for the probable successor D. João de Aguiar, he did not register on the news on the mandade with the pro-head vicar of that diocese. Carvalho was nominated bishop of

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and fully became on 3 September with the main head D. José Luís Alves, O.SS.T,

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and other bishops including

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( Bishop of Funchal) and D. José Lino de Oliveira ( bishop of Angola and the Congo). He took the search between the dioceses on 5 January 1872. He became the 25th bishop since its creation in 1533 and the first bishop which visited all of its churches in the archipelago. On 9 August 1882, Carvalho was nominated

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. He was mainly priest of the personal secretary of D.

Manuel Vieira de Matos Manuel Vieira de Matos (22 March 1861 – 28 September 1932) was Bishop of Guarda, Archbishop of Braga, and the founder of the Corpo Nacional de Escutas - Escutismo Católico Português. He was born in Poiares, Peso da Régua. On 1 April 1 ...

in 1889 and co-priest of the Patriarch of the Indias D.

António Sebastião Valente Dom Sebastião António Valente (20 January 1846http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bvalente.html , Google cache of catholic-hierarchy.org page, accessed on August 9, 2015 - 25 January 1908) was a Catholic archbishop and Portuguese coloni ...

in 1881 and D. António Tomás da Silva Leitão e Castro in 1883, future bishop of Lamego.

References

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