Casal (Dom Friar Gaspar do)
Original title: Casal (D. Fr. Gaspar do)
Fr. Gaspar do Casal (1512–1584), third bishop of Funchal, a learned theologian who never visited his diocese and was later bishop of Leiria and Coimbra.
He was the 3rd Bishop of Funchal and one of the most illustrious prelates of his time. The contemporary Madeiran chronicles tell us nothing worth mentioning about this head of the Funchal church, because he never came to his bishopric, owing to the high offices he held in mainland Portugal, such as professor at the University of Coimbra (Universidade de Coimbra), president of the Board of Conscience and Orders (Mesa da Consciência e Ordens), theologian of John III at the famous Council of Trent, etc. He was one of the most learned Portuguese of his age and left many printed works, almost all written in Latin.
He was appointed bishop of this diocese by Pope Julius II in 1551, and took possession the following year through the vicar general and provisor (diocesan judicial and administrative officer), Dr António da Costa, who was also the governor of the diocese (governador do bispado, administering the see in the bishop's absence). A few years later he obtained a transfer to the diocese of Leiria and then to that of Coimbra, and in both these bishoprics he was an eminent prelate. He was born in Santarém in 1512 and died in Coimbra on 9 August 1584.
Many works deal at length with Friar Gaspar do Casal, who was unquestionably one of the most illustrious men of his age.
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- Coimbra
Portugal. His later diocese and place of death.
Portuguese mainland university city where many Madeirans studied law or medicine, and where Padre Luís Gonçalves da Câmara taught and was rector of the Jesuit college. It hosted the 1921 academic table-tennis championship, and its dormancy and rainfall data are compared with Funchal's.
- Leiria
Portugal. Diocese to which he was transferred.
Leiria is a Portuguese city and diocese. Afonso de Castro died there while serving as civil governor, and it was the birthplace of Bishop D. José de Sousa Castelo Branco. D. Fr. Gaspar do Casal was transferred to its diocese.
- Santarém
Portugal. Birthplace of Casal.
Santarém is a town in Portugal. It was the birthplace of Bishop D. Jerónimo Fernando, D. Fr. Gaspar do Casal and Bishop D. Fernando de Távora, and the home of Zargo's maternal grandfather. Maximiliano Eugénio de Azevedo served there as a second lieutenant, and D. João Frederico da Câmara Leme was transferred to its civil governorship but declined it.
- Trent
Italy. Council where he served as royal theologian.
Trento is the city of the Council of Trent, which ordered seminaries to be founded in every diocese. D. Fr. Gaspar do Casal served at the council as a royal theologian.
People
People mentioned · 04- D. Fr. Gaspar do Casal1512–1584
Third bishop of Funchal (appointed 1551), professor at Coimbra and theologian at Trent, who never came to Madeira.
- António de Pádua da Costad. 1921
Vicar general who took possession of the see on Casal's behalf and governed the diocese.
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King of Portugal whose theologian Casal was at the Council of Trent.
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Pope named by the Elucidário as appointing Casal bishop of Funchal in 1551.