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Biography

Estevão de Brito was born in

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in 1567 and professed a priest in the

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in 1603. On 11 January 1621, he was appointed during the papacy of

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Archbishop of Cranganore. Om 18 February 1624, he succeeded to the bishopric. On 29 September 1624, he was

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bishop by Sebastião de São Pedro, Bishop of Cochin. He served as Archbishop of Cranganore until his death on 2 December 1641.

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