The Roman Catholic Diocese of Elvas was a Latin

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, located in the city Elvas, district of Portalegre in the

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region and in the ecclesiastical province of Évora."Diocese of Elvas"
'' Catholic-Hierarchy.org''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016"Titular Episcopal See of Elvas"
''GCatholic.org''. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016

History

* Erected on 9 June 1570 as Diocese of Elvas / ''Dioecesis Elvensis'' on canonical territory split off from Metropolitan the Archdiocese of Évora, apparently as its

suffragan A suffragan bishop is a type of bishop in some Christian denominations. In the Catholic Church, a suffragan bishop leads a diocese within an ecclesiastical province other than the principal diocese, the metropolitan archdiocese; the diocese led ...

.) * 1818 September 30: Suppressed, its territory being reassigned part back its Metropolitan of Evora, part to Diocese of Portalegre) :TO ELABORATE

Episcopal ordinaries

(all

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) ;''Suffragan Bishops of Elvas'' * António Mendes de Carvalho (1571 – death 1591.01.09) * António de Matos de Noronha (20 Nov 1591 – death 16 Nov 1610) * Rui Pires da Veiga (22 Oct 1612 – death 7 March 1616), also Bishop of

Leiria Leiria () is a city and municipality in the Central Region, Portugal, Central Region of Portugal. It is the 2nd largest city in that same region, after Coimbra, with a municipality population of 128,640 (as of 2021) in an area of . It is the seat o ...

(Portugal) (1615 – resigned 1615) * Lourenço de Távora, Capuchin Friars Minor (O.F.M. Cap.) (18 Sep 1617 – 1625 Resigned), previously Bishop of

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(

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, Portugal) (1609.10.24 – 1617.09.18) *

Sebastião de Matos de Noronha Sebastião is Portuguese for ''Sebastian''. This name may refer to: People * Sebastião (given name) Places * Sebastião Barros, a town in the state of Piauí, Brazil * Sebastião Laranjeiras, a city in the state of Bahia, Brazil * Sebastião Lea ...

(16 March 1626 – 9 June 1636) next Metropolitan Archbishop of

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(Portugal) (1636.06.09 – death 1641) *

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(14 June 1638 – death 30 Nov 1658) * João de Melo (1 July 1671 – 17 July 1673), next Bishop of

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(Portugal) (1673 – 1684.04.24), Bishop of

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(Portugal) (1684.04.24 – death 1704.06.28) * Alexandre da Silva Botelho (18 Dec 1673 – death 3 Feb 1681) *

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(O.P.) (11 Jan 1683 – death 29 July 1689) * Jerónimo Soares (6 March 1690 – 30 Aug 1694), next Bishop of

(1694.08.30 – death 1720) * Bento de Beja Noronha (11 Oct 1694 – death 30 Nov 1700) * António Pereira da Silva (8 Aug 1701 – 15 Sep 1704), next Bishop of Faro (1704.09.15 – death 1715.04.17) * Nuno da Cunha e Ataíde (1705 – resigned 1705), later Titular Bishop of Targa (1705.12.14 – 1712.05.18), created

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of S. Anastasia (1721.06.16 – death 1750.12.03) * Pedro de Lencastre,

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(O. Cist.) (25 Jan 1706 – death 27 Sep 1713) * Fernando de Faro (7 May 1714 – death 14 Oct 1714) * João de Sousa de Castelo-Branco (13 Jan 1716 – death 17 March 1728) * Diego Col, Oratory of Filip Neri (C.O.) (1740.12.19 – ?) * Pedro de Villas Boas e Sampaio (26 Nov 1742 – death 14 June 1743) * Baltazar de Faria Villas-Boas (29 July 1743 – death 30 July 1757) * Lourenço de Lencastre (28 May 1759 – 18 Sep 1780), next Bishop of

(Portugal) (1780.09.18 – death 1790.03.04) * João Teixeira de Carvalho (18 Sep 1780 – 22 April 1792 Died) * Diego de Jesus Jardim,

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(O.S.H.) (21 Feb 1794 – death 30 May 1796), previously Bishop of

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(

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) (1785.02.14 – 1794.02.21) * José da Costa e Torres (22 June 1796 – 26 August 1806), next metropolitan Archbishop of

(1806 – 1813); previously Bishop of

(

, Portugal) (1785.02.14 – 1796.06.22) * José Joaquim da Cunha Azeredo Coutinho (6 Oct 1806 – death 20 May 1820), previously Bishop of

(Brazil) (1794.09.12 – 1806.10.06) * Joaquim de Meneses e Ataide,

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(O.E.S.A.) (29 May 1820 – death 5 Nov 1828), previously Bishop of São Tomé de Meliapor (

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) (1804.10.29 – 1820.05.29) * Ângelo de Nossa Senhora da Boa-Morte,

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(O.F.M.) (17 Dec 1832 – death 27 July 1852).

Titular see

In 1969 the diocese was nominally restored as Titular See of Elvas. It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank : * André Jacquemin (1969.12.10 – resigned 1970.12.10) as emeritate, died 1975; previously Titular Bishop of Cartennæ (1951.12.20 – 1954.10.29) as

Coadjutor Bishop A coadjutor bishop (or bishop coadjutor) ("co-assister" in Latin) is a bishop in the Latin Catholic, Anglican and (historically) Eastern Orthodox churches whose main role is to assist the diocesan bishop in administering the diocese. The coa ...

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(France) (1951.12.20 – 1954.10.29), succeeding as Bishop of Bayeux (1954.10.29 – retired 1969.12.10) * Raymond-Joseph-Louis Bouchex (1972.02.23 – 1978.04.25) as

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Archdiocese of Aix The Archdiocese of Aix-en-Provence and Arles (Latin: ''Archidioecesis Aquensis in Gallia et Arelatensis''; French language, French: ''Archidiocèse d'Aix-en-Provence et Arles''; Occitan language, Occitan Provençal dialect, Provençal: ''Archidio ...

(France) (1972.02.23 – 1978.04.25); next Metropolitan Archbishop of

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(France) (1978.04.25 – 2002.06.21); died 2010 BIOs TO ELABORATE * Tomás Pedro Barbosa da Silva Nunes (1998.03.07 – 2010.09.01) * José Augusto Martins Fernandes Pedreira (1982.12.28 – 1997.10.29) * Armindo Lopes Coelho (1978.11.16 – 1982.10.15) * (2011.10.10 – ...): Bishop Nuno Brás da Silva Martins (), Auxiliary Bishop of Lisboa (Portugal)

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