Patriarch of Lisbon

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The Patriarch of Lisbon is one of the few Western Patriarchates in the Roman Catholic Church, an honorary title without actual authority except for the Patriarch of Rome, as Pope.

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[edit] The see and its history

The diocese of Lisbon was created in the 4th century, but it lay vacant after 716 when the city was captured by the Moors. The diocese was restored when the city was recaptured by Afonso I of Portugal during the Second Crusade (see Siege of Lisbon). It was elevated first to an archdiocese on November 10, 1394, and then to a patriarchal see on November 7, 1716.

There are over two million people living in 282 parishes within the see, 85% of whom are nominally Catholic. The suffragan dioceses of the see are Angra, Funchal, Guarda, Leiria-Fátima, Portalegre-Castelo Branco, Santarém, and Setúbal. The former diocese of Silves, comprising the Algarve, and currently , was only transferred from the Spanish province of Sevilla in 1393. The other Portuguese archbishopric, Braga in the north, is older: 1104, and claimed to be the primate over all Portugal and northwest Spain (including Santiago archbishopric).

[edit] Precursors in the see

[edit] Bishops of Lisbon

[edit] Archbishops of Lisbon

[edit] Patriarchs of Lisbon

[edit] Sources, References and External links

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