Geraldo de Sao José

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Geraldo de São José , also Gerardo de São José (born October 6, 1709 in Cacilhas , Portugal ; † January 1760 in Lifau , Portuguese Timor ) was a Portuguese Roman Catholic bishop of Malacca .

Geraldo came to the kingdom's possessions in Southeast Asia from Portugal. The Dominican was elected to succeed Bishop Miguel de Bulhões e Souza on January 11, 1748 and was confirmed as Bishop of Malacca on February 19, 1748 . In 1749 Geraldo chose Lifau, the base of the Portuguese in west Timor , as his new bishopric. Malacca was conquered by the Dutch in 1641 . Before Geraldo, the bishops Manuel de Santo António (1701–1722) and António de Castro (1738–1743) had already resided in Lifau. During Geraldo's time in Timor, the seminary of Manatuto was established , the second after the seminary in Lifau founded in 1738 . At that time there were 15 Catholic churches in Timor.

Tension had existed between the Dominicans and the Portuguese governors for years. With the appointment of the first governors in 1702, the Dominicans lost their administrative sovereignty over the colony. In addition, the Dutch tried to drive the Portuguese from the island of Timor and the local Topasse were only nominally under Portuguese control. The Portuguese were so hard pressed that Governor Vicento Ferreira de Carvalho wanted to sell the colony and the Lifau base to the Dutch, which his successor Sebastião de Azevedo e Brito tried to prevent. His employer, the Viceroy of India Manuel de Saldanha e Albuquerque , had doubts about the qualities of Azevedo e Brito already at the beginning of his term in office, so he asked Bishop Geraldo for support, and in case of "risky orders" he might prevent their implementation Take over government in the colony. In another letter, the viceroy gave the bishop more precise details of when to intervene:

"... quando o dito Governador tenha cometido desordens taes que sejão a Cauza suficiente, que dellas se possa justamente receyar a conservação ou estabelecimento daquela conquista ...."

Geraldo died in January 1760 under mysterious circumstances. In the same year , Hans Albrecht von Plüskow , who was in Dutch service, tried to take possession of Lifau, but was confronted by a Topasse force, by which he was murdered. To what extent the Portuguese governor Azevedo e Brito was involved in the murder is controversial. Azevedo e Brito was finally arrested in 1760 by the Dominican Jacinto da Conceição and deported to Goa .

The bishopric remained vacant until 1782 when the Franciscan Alexandre da Sagrada Familia Ferreira da Silva took over the office.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Catholic Hierarchy: Bishop Gerardo de São José, OP † , accessed November 23, 2017.
  2. ↑ Alberto Ricardo da Silva : HISTÓRIA BADAK DIOCESE DILI NIAN , April 24, 2015 , accessed on November 23, 2017.
  3. ↑ Forum Hakesuk: Confêrencia nas Celebrações do Primeiro Centenário do Nascimento do Senhor Dom Jaime Garcia Goulart , May 28, 2008 , accessed on November 23, 2017.
  4. ↑ Forum Hakesuk: 1769 O Onzo de Agosto na História de Timor-Leste , accessed on 23 November 2017th
  5. ↑ O Império Português na Insulíndia - A GOVERNAÇÃO DE TIMOR NO SÉCULO XVIII - Lifau 1702–1769 , March 2016 , accessed on November 23, 2017.
  6. ↑ Susana Barnes, Hans Hägerdal, Lisa Palmer: An East Timorese Domain - Luca from Central and Peripheral Perspectives , p. 332, 2017, DOI: 10.1163 / 22134379-17302020 .
  7. ↑ Geoffrey C. Gunn: History of Timor , p. 45 ff. , Available from Centro de Estudos sobre África, Ásia e América Latina , CEsA of the TU Lisbon (PDF file; 805 kB)
  8. ↑ Chronologie de l'histoire du Timor (1512-1945) suivie des événements récents (1975-1999) (French; PDF; 887 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Geraldo de Sao José
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gerardo de Sao José
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese Roman Catholic Bishop of Malacca
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1709
PLACE OF BIRTH Cacilhas , Portugal
DATE OF DEATH January 1760
Place of death Lifau , Portuguese Timor