Santa Casa da Misericórdia
On 19 January 1671 was appointed Titular bishop of Hippo Diarrhytus by Pope Clement X and was consecrated on 14 June of the same year, in the Royal Chapel, Ribeira Palace, by Álvaro de São Boaventura, bishop of Guarda, assisted by Cristovão da Silveira, archbishop of Goa and Estevão dos Santos, bishop of São Salvador da Bahia. In 1674 was appointed Governor of Santa Casa da Misericórdia, a position he would get a second time, in 1683.