After the Portuguese conquest of Goa by Afonso de Albuquerque in 1510, King Manuel I built a chapel there in honour of St. Catherine, named patron of the city in 1518. Christians in the region were given into the charge of OP, the Franciscan bishop of the titular see of Laodicea. He governed until 1527 when he was succeeded by Dom OFM, the Franciscan titular bishop of Aureopolis, from 1529 to 1535.