António Joaquim de Medeiros

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António Joaquim de Medeiros (born October 15, 1846 in Vilar de Nantes , Portugal , † January 7, 1897 in Lahane , Portuguese Timor ) was a Roman Catholic bishop of Macau .

Career

Medeiros was born in Portugal. He was ordained a priest in 1871.

Medeiros was intensively involved in the proselytizing of the Portuguese Timor colony. He was rector of the São José seminary in Macau before he was appointed visador in 1874 with the task of reinforcing the missionary work of Timor again. From 1877 he lived in the colonial capital Dili there and was Superior of the Church and Vicar General for the Portuguese possessions in Southeast Asia. Medeiros estimated that there were around 40,000 Christians in the colony at that time. In Lahane , the governor's residence near Dili, Medeiros had the old mission school for the sons of local rulers ( Liurai ) rebuilt in (according to Medeiros) "the elegance of classical architecture" in 1879 for 16,000 rupees . In addition, two more Colégios were founded in Dili in the same year , one for boys and one for girls. The latter was run by Canossians . Also in the mountains south of Dili, Medeiros set up an experimental farm for agriculture and in Soibada he commissioned Jesuits to found the Missão do Sagrado Coração de Jesus , in which another mission school for Timorese was later built, which is grandiose as the Timorese counterpart of the Portuguese Coimbra University and became the colony's religious and educational center.

On August 29, 1882, Medeiros was appointed auxiliary bishop of Goa . Portuguese Timor was subordinate to the Diocese of Macau and this in turn to the Archdiocese of Goa and Daman . At the same time he became titular bishop of Thermopylae . The ordination followed on August 15, 1883. On September 4, 1884 Medeiros was finally appointed bishop of Macau, the confirmation was given on November 13, 1884. In 1886 the parishes of São José in Singapore and São Pedro in Malacca were also subordinate to him. He visited Portuguese Timor repeatedly, where he died on January 7, 1897.

Commemoration

In Macau, Rua do Bispo Medeiros is named after the bishop. The former Avenida Bispo Medeiros in Dili was renamed Avenida Xavier do Amaral in 2015 , but in Dilis Suco Mascarenhas there is a district called Bispo Medeiros .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Catholic Hierarchy: Bishop Antônio Joaquim de Medeiros , accessed November 19, 2016.
  2. ↑ Património de Influência Portuguesa: Mission of the Sacred Heart of Jesus , accessed November 15, 2016.
  3. ^ Geoffrey C. Gunn: History of Timor. ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Technical University of Lisbon (PDF file; 805 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / pascal.iseg.utl.pt
  4. ↑ Monsenhor Manuel Teixeira: Bispos, Missionários, Igrejas e Escolas: no IV Centenário da Diocese de Macau (Macau ea sua Diocese, Vol. 12), Macau, Tipografia da Missão do Padroado, 1976, pp. 38 & 75-82.
predecessor Office successor
Manuel Bernardo de Sousa Enes Bishop of Macau
November 13, 1884–7. January 1897 		José Manuel de Carvalho
personal data
SURNAME Medeiros, António Joaquim de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese clergyman, Roman Catholic Bishop of Macau
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Vilar de Nantes , Portugal
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1897
Place of death Lahane , Portuguese Timor