Type: | archbishop |
Nationality: | Portuguese |
Death Place: | Goa, India |
Birth Place: | Porto, Portugal |
Birth Date: | 27 July 1859 |
Consecrated By: | Bishop António José de Souza Barroso |
Consecration: | 15 August 1899 |
Ordination: | 8 April 1882 |
Honorific-Prefix: | The Most Reverend |
Successor: | José da Costa Nunes |
Predecessor: | Mateus de Oliveira Xavier |
Appointed: | 25 May 1929 |
See: | Goa and Daman |
Diocese: | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Goa and Daman |
Archdiocese: | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Goa and Daman |
Archbishop of Goa and Daman | |
Teotónio Emanuel Ribeiro Vieira de Castro |
Teotónio Emanuel Ribeiro Vieira de Castro was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Goa e Damão, India and Patriarch of the East Indies from 1929 to 1940.[1] [2]
Castro was born in Porto, Portugal on 27 July 1859.
On 8 April 1882, Castro was ordained a catholic priest.
Castro was appointed bishop of the Diocese of São Tomé of Meliapore and consecrated as a bishop by Bishop António José de Souza Barroso on 15 August 1899, in Porto.
On 25 May 1929, he was appointed Archbishop and Patriarch of East Indies of Goa e Damão, India.
Castro died on 16 May 1940.