The Diocese of Santiago de Cabo Verde ( la, Dioecesis Sancti Iacobi Capitis Viridis) is a

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ecclesiastical territory or

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of the

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in Cape Verde. It covers the islands of Maio,

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, Fogo, and

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(the

Sotavento Islands The Sotavento Islands ( Portuguese: ''Ilhas de Sotavento'', literally, the ''Leeward Islands'') is the southern island group of the Cape Verde archipelago.cathedra is within the Pró-catedral Nossa Senhora da Graça in Praia, Santiago.Dados gerais
Diocese de Santiago de Cabo Verde The diocese is immediately exempt to the

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and is not part of any

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History

The Diocese of Santiago de Cabo Verde was created on January 31, 1533 as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Funchal (Azores, Portugal) by

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. Its seat was Ribeira Grande, on Santiago.História
Diocese de Santiago de Cabo Verde Bishop

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started construction of a cathedral in Ribeira Grande in 1556. Ribeira Grande went into decline in the 18th century, and the seat was moved to Ribeira Brava on São Nicolau in 1786, where it stayed until 1943. A seminary and an episcopal palace were built there.Inventário dos recursos turísticos do município de Ribeira Brava de São Nicolau
Direcção Geral do Turismo, p. 28-29 Until September 4, 1940 the diocese covered not only the Cape Verde islands, but also Portuguese Guinea on the African mainland. Portuguese Guinea became a Mission ''sui iuris'', the later

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. Since November 2003 the (northern)

Barlavento Islands The Barlavento Islands ( Portuguese: ''Ilhas de Barlavento'', literally, the ''Windward Islands'') is the northern group of the Cape Verde archipelago.Roman Catholic Diocese of Mindelo The Diocese of Mindelo ( la, Dioecesis Mindelensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Cabo Verde. Its cathedral is Catedral Nossa Senhora da Luz in the episcopal see of Mindelo. The diocese is immedi ...

, and the Diocese of Santiago de Cabo Verde only covers the (southern) Sotavento Islands.Diocese of Santiago de Cabo Verde
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Bishops

The bishops of the Diocese of Santiago de Cabo Verde: #

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, OFM (31 January 1533 – 9 February 1538) #

João Parvi João Parvi (Latin: Ioannes Parvi or Ioannes Pettit), also known as D. João de Évora (1480 - 29 November 1546) was a French-Portuguese prelate. Biography Parvi was born in the Diocese of Bayonne in Aquitaine in the southwest of France under th ...

(23 September 1538 – 29 November 1546) # ''

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(29 November 1546 – 18 August 1553)'' #

, OSA (18 August 1553 – 19 January 1571) # Bartolomeu Leitão (6 February 1572 – 9 February 1587) # Pedro Brandão, OCarm (8 August 1588 – 14 July 1608) # Luis Pereira de Miranda (10 November 1608 – May 1610) # Sebastião de Ascensão, OP (18 April 1611 – 17 March 1614) # Manuel Afonso de Guerra (24 February 1616 – 8 March 1624) # Lorenzo Garro (18 August 1625 – 1 November 1646) # ''Sede vacante (1 November 1646 – 16 May 1672)'' # Fabio dos Reis Fernandes, OCarm (16 May 1672 – 8 February 1674) # Antonio de São Dionysio, OFM (2 December 1675 – 12 September 1684) # Victorino do Porto, OFM (12 May 1687 – 21 January 1705) # Francisco a São Agostinho, TOR (24 September 1708 – 8 May 1719) # José a Santa Maria de Jesus Azevedo Leal, OFM (21 February 1721 – 7 June 1736) # João de Faro, OFM (3 September 1738 – 21 July 1741) # João de Moreira, OFM (26 November 1742 – 13 August 1747) # ''Sede vacante (13 August 1747 – 29 January 1753)'' # Pedro Jacinto Valente, O. do Cristo (29 January 1753 – 19 January 1774) # ''Sede vacante (19 January 1775 – 1 March 1779)'' # Francisco de São Simão, OFM (1 March 1779 – 10 August 1783) # Cristoforo a São Boaventura, OFM (1785.02.14 – 1798.04.29) # ''Sede vacante (29 April 1798 – 24 May 1802)'' # Silvestre Santa Maria, OFM (24 May 1802 – 22 November 1813) # ''Sede vacante (22 November 1813 – 21 January 1820)'' # Geronimo do Barco, OFM (21 January 1820 – 27 December 1831) # ''Sede vacante (27 December 1831 – 31 May 1845)'' # Patrício Xavier de Moura, OSA (31 May 1845 – 15 April 1859), appointed Bishop of Funchal, Portugal # João Crisóstomo de Amorim Pessoa, OFM Ref. (8 June 1859 – 22 March 1861), appointed Archbishop of Goa, India # ''Sede vacante (22 March 1861'' ''– 25 September 1865)'' # José Luís Alves Feijó, O.SS.T. (25 September 1865 – 26 June 1871), appointed Bishop of Bragança e Miranda, Portugal # José Dias Correia de Carvalho (26 June 1871 – 9 August 1883), appointed Bishop of Viseu, Portugal # Joaquim Augusto de Barros (27 March 1884 – 1 March 1904) # António Moutinho (14 November 1904 – 4 March 1909) # José Alves Martins (10 March 1910 – 15 November 1935) # Joaquim Rafael Maria d'Assunção Pitinho, OFM (15 November 1935 – 5 May 1940) # Faustino Moreira dos Santos, CSSp (28 January 1941 – 27 July 1955) # José Filípe do Carmo Colaço (28 March 1956 – 21 April 1975) # Paulino do Livramento Évora, CSSp (21 April 1975 – 22 July 2009) #

Arlindo Gomes Furtado Arlindo Gomes Furtado CSSp (born 15 November 1949 in Santa Catarina) is the Cape Verdean Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Santiago de Cabo Verde, since 2009, and was the first bishop of the Diocese of Mindelo, from 2004 to 2009. In 2015, he ...

(22 July 2009 – ), elevated to Cardinal in 2015

Sources

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Santiago de Cabo Verde Roman Catholic dioceses in Cape Verde Religious organizations established in 1533 Roman Catholic dioceses established in the 16th century 1533 establishments in the Portuguese Empire

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