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Goa

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Goa, the seat of Portuguese government in India, was reached by the navigators João de Abreu in 1513 and António de Abreu in 1527. The Elucidário records that its diocese was made suffragan to the archdiocese of Funchal, and that Jaime Moniz represented it as a deputy.

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2Chronology

  1. João de Abreu arrived at the bar of Goa.

  2. Funchal was raised by papal bull to an archdiocese with suffragans Angra, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Goa, its cathedral becoming an archiepiscopal see.

  3. D. Aires de Ornelas de Vasconcelos was presented as archbishop of Goa by royal letter.

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