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Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal. The Parochial Memories of 1758 (Portuguese: Memórias Paroquiais de 1758) are the results of an enquiry sent to every parish in Portugal after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake by the order of Sebastião de Carvalho e Melo, the Secretary of State of Internal Affairs of the Kingdom.
Diogo de Couto, a 16th century historian who served as Guarda-Mor ("High Guardian") of the Torre do Tombo's Portuguese India archives.. The archive is one of the oldest institutions in Portugal, since its installation in one of the towers of the castle in Lisbon, occurring during the reign of Ferdinand I, and likely in 1378 (the date where the first testimony originated).
The Diocese of Aveiro (Latin: Dioecesis Aveirensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Portugal. It has existed since 1938 when the historical dioceses of Coimbra, Porto, and Viseu were combined. It is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Braga. [1] In 2012, it had 274,400 baptized over 314,800 inhabitants.
Frei Antonio de Castro became Patriarch of Lisbon in 1814, being followed at Porto by João Avelar. Frei Manuel de Santa Inês, though elected, never obtained confirmation, but some years after his death, relations between Portugal and the Holy See were re-established by a concordat and Jerónimo da Costa Rebelo became bishop in 1843.
Monterey, Guido de (1981), Santa Maria e São Miguel (Açores): as duas ilhas do oriente (in Portuguese), Porto, Portugal: Ed. do Autor, p. 352; Ficha 63/Santa Maria do "Arquivo da Arquitectura Popular dos Açores". Ficha D-2 do "Inventário do Património Histórico e Religioso para o Plano Director Municipal de Vila do Porto".
Igreja de Santa Clara is a Catholic church located in the parish of Sé in Porto, Portugal. The construction of the church began in 1416 alongside the Santa Clara Convent for use by nuns of the Order of Poor Clares. The nuns settled in the church in 1427, which was eventually completed in 1457.
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A Church of São João Evangelista (Portuguese: Igreja de São João Evangelista), or Carmelite Church of Aveiro, is an 18th-century church in the Praça Marquês de Pombal, in the civil parish of Glória e Vera Cruz, in the Portuguese municipality of Aveiro. It was declared a national monument in 1910.