Domingos Torrado

Most Reverend

Domingos Torrado da Trinidade
Titular Bishop of Fisicula
Auxiliary Bishop of Goa
ChurchCatholic Church
ArchdioceseArchdiocese of Goa
In office1605–1612
Orders
Consecration13 Apr 1608
by Alexeu de Jesu de Meneses
Personal details
Born1555 (1555)
Elvas, Portugal
DiedDecember 30, 1612(1612-12-30) (aged 56–57)
Goa

Domingos Torrado, O.S.A. (1555–1612) was a Roman Catholic prelate who was named as Titular Bishop of Fisicula (1605–1612). He is also known as Domingos Terrado or Domingos da Trinidade.

Biography

Domingos Torrado da Trinidade was born in Elvas, Portugal in 1555 and ordained a priest in the Order of Saint Augustine. He served as vicar general of his congregation. He traveled to Asia where he founded a convent in Colombo. On 7 Feb 1605, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Clement VIII as Titular Bishop of Fiscula and auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Goa (some sources name him as titular bishop of Salé). On 13 Apr 1608, he was consecrated bishop by Alexeu de Jesu de Meneses, Archbishop of Goa. In 1610, de Meneses returned to Europe and Torrado served as administrator of the Archdiocese. On 21 January 1612, Pope Paul V separated the east coast of Africa (from the Cape of Guardafui in the north to the Cape of Good Hope in the south) from the territory of the Archdiocese of Goa creating a separate ecclesiastical territory (prelature nullius) and named Torrado as the first Administrator of the Prelature of Mozambique. He never succeeded as Administrator of Mozambique as he died on 30 Dec 1612 in Goa.

References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 Boletim da Sociedade de Geographia de Lisboa (in Portuguese). January 1893. p. 460.
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  5. ↑ Neill, Stephen (29 January 2004). A History of Christianity in India: The Beginnings to AD 1707. Cambridge University Press. p. 471. ISBN 9780521548854.
  6. ↑ Kenny, O.P., Joseph (1982). The Catholic Church in Tropical Africa 1445-1850. Ibadan University Press & Dominican Publications. Archived from the original on 7 February 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  7. ↑ Vilanculos, Júlio André. The role played by Church and State in the democratisation process in Mozambique, 1975-2004 (PDF). Department of Church History and Church Polity, University of Pretoria. The second missionary expedition in Mozambique began in January 1612 after the papal bull was issued by Pope Paulo V, who elevated Mozambique to a "Prelature Nullius". Prelature Nullius means a certain area of Roman Catholic Church that is functioning without a Prelate/Bishop. In such a situation, the Pope chooses an Administrator to run the activities of the Church.
  8. ↑ Theal, George McCall (7 March 2019). The Beginning of South African History. Wentworth Press. p. 363. ISBN 978-0530428659.