List of Patriarchs of the East Indies
The following people were bishops , archbishops and patriarchs of East India and Goa :
- 1533 Francisco de Mello
- 1539–1553 João Afonso de Albuquerque
- 1560–1567 Gaspar de Leão Pereira (first archbishop)
- 1568–1571 Jorge Temudo (also Bishop of Cochin)
- 1574–1576 Gaspar de Leão Pereira
- 1578–1581 Henrique de Távora e Brito
- 1582–1587 João Vicente da Fonseca
- 1588–1592 Mateus de Medina (also Bishop of Cochin)
- 1595–1609 Aleixo de Menezes (also Archbishop of Braga)
- 1613–1622 Cristóvão de Sá e Lisboa
- 1625-1629 Sebastiao de S. Pedro, OSA
- 1633 Manuel Teles de Brito (dies on the way to Goa)
- 1636-1652 Francisco dos Martires
- 1652–1671 vacant
- 1671–1673 Cristóvão da Silveira, OSA
- 1675–1678 Antonio Brandão
- 1681–1684 Manuel de Sousa e Menezes
- 1675–1679 Alberto da Silva, OSA
- 1691–1713 Agostinho da Anunciação
- 1716–1720 Sebastião de Andrade Pessanha
- 1721–1740 Inácio de Santa Teresa, OSA (also Bishop of Faro)
- 1740-1741 Eugenio de Trigueiros, OSA
- 1741–1750 Lourenço de Santa Maria e Melo
- 1750–1773 Antonio Taveira da Neiva Brum e Silveira
- 1774–1783 Francisco da Assunção e Brito, OSA
- 1784–1812 Manuel de Santa Catarina
- 1812–1831 Manuel de Santo Galdino
- 1844–1849 José Maria da Silva Torres
- 1862–1874 João Crisóstomo de Amorim Pessoa (also Archbishop of Braga)
- 1875–1879 Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos
- 1882–1908 António Sebastião Valente (first patriarch from 1886)
- 1909–1929 Mateus de Oliveira Xavier
- 1929–1940 Teotónio Emanuel Ribeira Vieira de Castro
- 1940–1953 José da Costa Nunes
- 1953–1975 José Vieira Alvernaz
- 1966–1972 Francisco Xavier da Piedade Rebello ( Apostolic Administrator )
- 1978-2004 Raul Nicolau Gonçalves
- 2004 – today Filipe Neri António Sebastião do Rosário Ferrão