# Roman Catholic Diocese of Elvas

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Elvas was a Latin diocese in Portugal, located in the city Elvas, district of Portalegre in the Alentejo region and in the ecclesiastical province of Évora.

## History

* Erected on 9 June 1570 as Diocese of Elvas / Dioecesis Elvensis on canonical territory split off from Metropolitan the Archdiocese of Évora, apparently as its suffragan.)
* 1818 September 30: Suppressed, its territory being reassigned part back its Metropolitan of Evora, part to Diocese of Portalegre)
    TO ELABORATE

## Episcopal ordinaries

(all Roman Rite)

### Suffragan Bishops of Elvas

* António Mendes de Carvalho (1571 – death 1591.01.09)
* António de Matos de Noronha (20 Nov 1591 – death 16 Nov 1610)
* Rui Pires da Veiga (22 Oct 1612 – death 7 March 1616), also Bishop of Leiria (Portugal) (1615 – resigned 1615)
* Lourenço de Távora, Capuchin Friars Minor (O.F.M. Cap.) (18 Sep 1617 – 1625 Resigned), previously Bishop of Funchal (Madeira, Portugal) (1609.10.24 – 1617.09.18)
* Sebastião de Matos de Noronha (16 March 1626 – 9 June 1636) next Metropolitan Archbishop of Braga (Portugal) (1636.06.09 – death 1641)
* Manuel da Cunha (14 June 1638 – death 30 Nov 1658)
* João de Melo (1 July 1671 – 17 July 1673), next Bishop of Viseu (Portugal) (1673 – 1684.04.24), Bishop of Coimbra (Portugal) (1684.04.24 – death 1704.06.28)
* Alexandre da Silva Botelho (18 Dec 1673 – death 3 Feb 1681)
* Valerio de São Raimundo, Order of Preachers (O.P.) (11 Jan 1683 – death 29 July 1689)
* Jerónimo Soares (6 March 1690 – 30 Aug 1694), next Bishop of Viseu (1694.08.30 – death 1720)
* Bento de Beja Noronha (11 Oct 1694 – death 30 Nov 1700)
* António Pereira da Silva (8 Aug 1701 – 15 Sep 1704), next Bishop of Faro (1704.09.15 – death 1715.04.17)
* Nuno da Cunha e Ataíde (1705 – resigned 1705), later Titular Bishop of Targa (1705.12.14 – 1712.05.18), created Cardinal-Priest of S. Anastasia (1721.06.16 – death 1750.12.03)
* Pedro de Lencastre, Cistercian Order (O. Cist.) (25 Jan 1706 – death 27 Sep 1713)
* Fernando de Faro (7 May 1714 – death 14 Oct 1714)
* João de Sousa de Castelo-Branco (13 Jan 1716 – death 17 March 1728)
* Diego Col, Oratory of Filip Neri (C.O.) (1740.12.19 – ?)
* Pedro de Villas Boas e Sampaio (26 Nov 1742 – death 14 June 1743)
* Baltazar de Faria Villas-Boas (29 July 1743 – death 30 July 1757)
* Lourenço de Lencastre (28 May 1759 – 18 Sep 1780), next Bishop of Leiria (Portugal) (1780.09.18 – death 1790.03.04)
* João Teixeira de Carvalho (18 Sep 1780 – 22 April 1792 Died)
* Diego de Jesus Jardim, Hieronymites (O.S.H.) (21 Feb 1794 – death 30 May 1796), previously Bishop of Olinda (Brazil) (1785.02.14 – 1794.02.21)
* José da Costa e Torres (22 June 1796 – 26 August 1806), next metropolitan Archbishop of Braga (1806 – 1813); previously Bishop of Funchal (Madeira, Portugal) (1785.02.14 – 1796.06.22)
* José Joaquim da Cunha Azeredo Coutinho (6 Oct 1806 – death 20 May 1820), previously Bishop of Olinda (Brazil) (1794.09.12 – 1806.10.06)
* Joaquim de Meneses e Ataide, Augustinians (O.E.S.A.) (29 May 1820 – death 5 Nov 1828), previously Bishop of São Tomé de Meliapor (India) (1804.10.29 – 1820.05.29)
* Ângelo de Nossa Senhora da Boa-Morte, Order of Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (17 Dec 1832 – death 27 July 1852).

## Titular see

In 1969 the diocese was nominally restored as Titular See of Elvas.
It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank :
* André Jacquemin (1969.12.10 – resigned 1970.12.10) as emeritate, died 1975; previously Titular Bishop of Cartennæ (1951.12.20 – 1954.10.29) as Coadjutor Bishop of Bayeux (France) (1951.12.20 – 1954.10.29), succeeding as Bishop of Bayeux (1954.10.29 – retired 1969.12.10)
* Raymond-Joseph-Louis Bouchex (1972.02.23 – 1978.04.25) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Aix (France) (1972.02.23 – 1978.04.25); next Metropolitan Archbishop of Avignon (France) (1978.04.25 – 2002.06.21); died 2010
BIOs TO ELABORATE
* Tomás Pedro Barbosa da Silva Nunes (1998.03.07 – 2010.09.01)
* José Augusto Martins Fernandes Pedreira (1982.12.28 – 1997.10.29)
* Armindo Lopes Coelho (1978.11.16 – 1982.10.15)
* (2011.10.10 – ...): Bishop Nuno Brás da Silva Martins, Auxiliary Bishop of Lisboa (Portugal)