D. Manuel Agostinho Barreto
1835–1911
bishop of Funchal · priest · teacher · writer
Twenty-sixth bishop of Funchal (1876/77–1911), regarded by the Elucidário as the most illustrious prelate of the diocese. He reformed the diocesan seminary and built the new seminary at the Incarnação, and he aided charitable foundations such as the Little Sisters of the Poor's asylum.
1Mentioned in
- Bishop’s palace — Bishop of Funchal who moved Figueiredo de Lemos's remains in 1903; after his death in 1911 the palace passed to the State.
- Angústias (cemetery) — Bishop who placed the cemetery under interdict in 1877 over a suicide's burial, and is himself buried there.
- Historical dates — Bishop of Funchal, died 1911.
- Andrade (Dom Francisco José Rodrigues de) — Bishop of Funchal who in 1891 funded a tombstone for Andrade's grave in Italy.
- Oliveira (Dr João Francisco de) — Bishop of Funchal and sole heir of Maria Leopoldina de Oliveira, who used the inheritance to build the Seminário da Incarnação.
- Immaculate Conception (chapels) — Bishop of Funchal who preached at the 1904 jubilee field mass and blessed the rebuilt Tabua chapel in 1910.
- Pacheco (Canon António Aires) — Bishop of Funchal in whose company Pacheco came to Madeira in 1877.
- Convent of the Incarnation — Bishop of Funchal who received the convent site in 1905 and built the diocesan seminary there at his own expense.
- Little Sisters of the Poor — Bishop of Funchal who greatly helped the Little Sisters of the Poor to found their asylum for the elderly in 1900.
- Bishops of Funchal — Twenty-sixth bishop of Funchal (1877–1911).
- Asylums — Bishop of Funchal who first proposed an asylum at the Trapiche run by the Brothers of Saint John of God.
- Figueiredo e Lemos (Dom Luís de) — Bishop of Funchal who in 1903 had Figueiredo de Lemos's remains moved to the cathedral.
- St Peter (chapel) — Bishop of Funchal who restored and blessed the São Jorge chapel of Saint Peter in 1901.
- São Martinho (parish) — Bishop of Funchal who appointed a provisional curate to São Martinho.
- Our Lady of the Peña de Francia (chapel) — Bishop of Funchal who lived in the house by the chapel for more than thirty years and asked to be buried in its churchyard.
- Seminary — Bishop who spent his fortune building the new seminary and reformed it in 1877.
- St Anthony (chapels) — Bishop of Funchal who blessed the rebuilt chapel at Lugar de Baixo on 25 February 1906.
- Pereira Ribeiro (Dom António Manuel) — Bishop of Funchal whose death in 1911 led to Pereira Ribeiro's election as capitular vicar.
- Neves (Dr Cassiano das) — Bishop of Funchal whose refusal of burial to a suicide Neves defended.
- Jardim do Mar (parish) — Bishop of Funchal who blessed the new church on 19 October 1907.
- Varela (Canon Dr António Vicente) — Bishop of Funchal whose conflict with the confraternity of Our Lady of Monte do Carmo Varela attacked in an anonymous 1891 pamphlet.
- Sé (parish) — Bishop of Funchal who provisionally suppressed one of the Sé curacies and created coadjutors.
- Old People’s Home — Bishop of Funchal who co-founded the Asilo dos Velhinhos in 1900.
- Holy Spirit (chapel) — Bishop of Funchal who blessed the repaired chapel on 10 June 1904.
- Castilho (Viscount of) — Late bishop of Funchal who had long lived at the Penha de França residence.
- Pinto Coelho (Frederico) — Bishop of Funchal attacked in Pinto Coelho's pamphlet Sudario Negro (1881).
- Machado (Dr Vicente Cândido) — Bishop of Funchal on whom Machado successfully performed a delicate surgical operation on 2 October 1880.
2Chronology
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D. Manuel Agostinho Barreto was born.
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D. Manuel Agostinho Barreto graduated in theology at Coimbra.
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D. Manuel Agostinho Barreto was appointed canon at Lamego (1866 according to Fortunato de Almeida).
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Canon António Aires Pacheco came to Madeira with Bishop D. Manuel Agostinho Barreto.
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D. Manuel Agostinho Barreto was consecrated Bishop of Funchal at the Estrela basilica in Lisbon, arrived in Funchal on 22 February, entered the cathedral on 25 February and issued his first pastoral on 2 March.
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After a suicide in Funchal was refused church burial but buried in the Angústias cemetery, Bishop Barreto placed the cemetery under interdict; Cassiano das Neves published a pamphlet on the affair in Porto.
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Dr Vicente Cândido Machado successfully operated on Bishop D. Manuel Agostinho Barreto, earning great renown.
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Frederico Pinto Coelho published the pamphlet Sudario Negro against Bishop Manuel Agostinho Barreto.
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A marble tombstone funded by Bishop Manuel Agostinho Barreto was placed on the grave of D. Francisco José Rodrigues de Andrade.
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Canon António Vicente Varela published anonymous pamphlets on Bishop Manuel Agostinho Barreto's quarrel with a confraternity and on the suppression of O Latego.
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The Little Sisters of the Poor arrived in Madeira and founded the Asilo dos Velhinhos, an asylum for the elderly, in Funchal.
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Bishop Manuel Agostinho Barreto blessed the restored chapel at São Jorge and returned it to worship.
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Bishop D. Manuel Agostinho Barreto blessed the repaired Santo Espírito chapel.
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The site of the Convento da Incarnação was granted to Bishop Manuel Agostinho Barreto for a seminary.
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Bishop Manuel Agostinho Barreto blessed the rebuilt chapel of Santo António at Lugar de Baixo.
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Bishop D. Manuel Agostinho Barreto blessed the new Gothic church of Jardim do Mar.
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The new diocesan seminary opened in its new building in the grounds of the Encarnação convent, under Bishop D. Manuel Agostinho Barreto.
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Bishop D. Manuel Agostinho Barreto died at Penha de França, and António Manuel Pereira Ribeiro became capitular vicar.
3Places mentioned
Abroad