List of Portuguese ambassadors in India

Location of Portugal (green) and India (orange)

The list of Portuguese ambassadors in India lists the ambassadors of the Republic of Portugal in India . The two states have had diplomatic relations since 1948.

Relations between the two countries have existed since Vasco da Gama arrived in India in 1498. After India gained independence from Great Britain in 1947, Portugal and India first agreed diplomatic relations in 1948. In January 1949 , a Portuguese representative was accredited for the first time in India's capital New Delhi . Mutual relations were strained by the Portuguese colonies that still existed in India , to which India claimed and which Portugal did not want to renounce. In 1955, India de facto took control of the previously Portuguese Dadra and Nagar Haveli and in 1961, India occupied the remaining Portuguese possessions ( Goa , Daman and Diu ) in a brief military operation, which led to Portugal breaking off diplomatic relations. After the Carnation Revolution in 1974 and the end of the colonial Estado Novo regime in Portugal, both countries resumed diplomatic relations in 1977.

The Portuguese embassy is located at number 4 on Panchsheel Marg in Chanakyapuri in the Indian capital New Delhi.

Portugal also has a consulate general in Goa , and there are also honorary consulates in Calcutta (officially Kolkata) and Mumbai (formerly Bombay) .

Heads of mission

Portuguese Ambassador to India

Surname	image	Term of office	Remarks
India
Vasco Vieira Garin		January 10, 1949 - 1955	Ministro Plenipotenciário in the Legation opened in New Delhi in 1949; accredited on January 27, 1947, in 1955 the Legation was closed again
Gabriel Mesquita de Brito		March 21, 1975 - June 22, 1976	Charge d'Affaires , accredited at the newly opened embassy on April 14, 1975
Luis Gaspar da Silva		June 22, 1976 - August 15, 1979	Ambassador, accredited July 19, 1976
João Eduardo Monteverde Pereira Bastos		October 19, 1979 - June 4, 1982	Ambassador, accredited November 30, 1979
António Manuel da Veiga and Meneses Cordeiro		June 26, 1982 - March 4, 1984	Ambassador, accredited July 5, 1982
António Telo Moreira de Almeida de Magalhães Colaço		April 16, 1984 - May 9, 1988	Ambassador, accredited May 18, 1984
Álvaro Manuel Soares Guerra		July 6, 1988 - December 22, 1992	Ambassador, accredited August 2, 1988
José Augusto Baptista Lopes e Seabra		March 1993 - September 1, 1993	Ambassador, accredited March 23, 1993
Marcello de Zaffiri Duarte de Mathias		November 1, 1993 - November 16, 1997	Ambassador, accredited November 16, 1993
Manuel Marcelo Monteiro Curto		October 28, 1997 - March 31, 2001	Ambassador, accredited November 27, 1997
Francisco Manuel Guimarães Henriques da Silva		April 23, 2001 - August 28, 2002	ambassador
Joaquim José Lemos Ferreira Marques		November 18, 2002 - January 30, 2007	ambassador
Luís Filipe Carrilho de Castro Mendes		February 23, 2007 - January 25, 2011	ambassador
Jorge Ayres Rosa de Oliveira		February 23, 2011 - November 20, 2015	Ambassador, accredited April 1, 2011
João do Carmo Ataíde da Câmara			Accredited since December 9, 2015

See also

• List of Indian ambassadors in Portugal
• Indo-Portuguese relations
• Foreign policy of Portugal

Web links

Commons : Portuguese Ambassador to India  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of the Portuguese Embassy in New Delhi (Portuguese, English)
• List of Portuguese Ambassadors to India , Diplomatic Institute in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Portugal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Overview of diplomatic relations with India at the Diplomatic Institute in the Portuguese Foreign Ministry , accessed on October 13, 2019
2. ↑ ^{a b} Diplomatic-consular contact details in India , website of the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs for travelers and Portuguese living abroad, accessed on March 4, 2018
3. ↑ List of Portuguese Ambassadors in India , Diplomatic Institute in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Portugal, accessed on October 13, 2019