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Pedro Fernandes Sardinha, or Pero Sardinha (1496 – 1556), was a Portuguese priest, first bishop of Brazil. BispoSardinha

Biography

Sardinha was born in

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. He studied at the University of Paris circa 1525. He was appointed chaplain of the St. Sebastian Church in

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in 1529, then moving to Lisbon and Porto. In 1545 he was named dean of the Cathedral of Goa in India. After the death of the governor-general

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, Sardinha returned to Portugal, studying Canon Law in Coimbra. In 1551,

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established the Diocese of Brazil, under the Papal bull '' Super specula militantis ecclesiae''. Sardinha was elected to act as its first bishop. He arrived in the city of

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on February 25, 1551, at the age of 55. Sardinha was ordained a bishop by Dom Fernando de Menezes Coutinho e Vasconcellos, taking office on June 22, 1552. He resigned on June 2, 1556. On July 16, 1556, he and his crew were shipwrecked and captured by the

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in the

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, a Portuguese administrative district that covered the region north of Bahia. The shipwreck occurred in the present-day city of

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in the state of

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at the mouth of the

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. Sardinha indicated by nods that he was a great prelate of the Portuguese and a priest consecrated to God. He was slaughtered with a mace and devoured, along with his companions. Dom Pero Fernandes Sardinha was succeeded in the Prime See of Brazil by Dom

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(1519-1573).

In literature

Oswald de Andrade José Oswald de Souza Andrade (January 11, 1890 – October 22, 1954) was a Brazilian poet, novelist and cultural critic. He was born, spent most of his life and died in São Paulo. Andrade was one of the founders of Brazilian modernism and a m ...

used the episode to date his '' Anthropophagic Manifesto'' in 1928.

References

External links

Catholic Hierarchy profile

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sardinha, Pero Fernandes 16th-century Portuguese Roman Catholic priests Roman Catholic archbishops of São Salvador da Bahia 16th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Brazil 1556 deaths 1496 births People from Évora Portuguese Roman Catholic bishops in South America Roman Catholic bishops of São Salvador da Bahia