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  2. List of Portuguese cardinals - Wikipedia

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    Henry of Portugal, both cardinal and King of Portugal. The following is a list of Portuguese cardinals in the Roman Catholic Church, ordered by years of consistory. Throughout history, 46 Portuguese prelates were elevated to the cardinalate. This list includes 5 cardinal bishops, 36 cardinal priests and 5 cardinal deacons.

  3. José Tolentino de Mendonça - Wikipedia

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    The youngest of five children, de Mendonça was born on the island of Madeira, Portugal on 15 December 1965. He spent his earliest years in Angola, in several coastal towns where his father was a fisherman. He left Africa at the age of nine when Portugal withdrew from its African colonies. [1] Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, 15 May 2021

  4. Francisco Antunes Santana - Wikipedia

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    Francisco II was born in Lisbon on 10 October 1924 to António Francisco Santana and Ana de Jesus Santana. [3]He was ordained by Cardinal Cerejeira on 29 June 1948, after which he took the position as teacher in the seminary of Santarém and as priest in several parishes of Lisbon.

  5. Ponta de São Lourenço - Wikipedia

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    The headland's highest point is Pico do Furado. There is a path which takes about an hour to walk from the headland entrance. To the west is the New Port of Madeira. The headland's geology consists of pyroclastic rocks as well as basalt dykes (dikes) and some coasts being eroded. The group dates back to the Late Pleistocene, about 100,000 years ...

  6. Cardinalidae - Wikipedia

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    Cardinalidae (sometimes referred to as the "cardinal-grosbeaks" or simply the "cardinals") is a family of New World-endemic passerine birds that consists of cardinals, grosbeaks, and buntings. It also includes several other genera such as the tanager-like Piranga and the warbler-like Granatellus .

  7. List of birds of Madeira - Wikipedia

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    Madeira firecrest (R. madeirensis) Order: Passeriformes Family: Regulidae. The kinglets, also called crests, are a small group of birds often included in the Old World warblers, but frequently given family status because they also resemble the titmice. Goldcrest, Regulus regulus; Madeira firecrest, Regulus madeirensis (E)

  8. Faial (Santana) - Wikipedia

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    The parish is located between the municipal of seat of Santana and the parish of São Roque do Faial, 21 kilometres north Funchal the regional capital, while 5 kilometres from Porto da Cruz, 15 kilometres from Machico and 39 kilometres from Porto Moniz; it is connected to these centres by a Regional Roadway network that gives its inhabitants limited access to southern communities.

  9. Patriarch of Lisbon - Wikipedia

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    Coat of arms of Patriarch José de Almeida Neto, featuring the papal tiara. The See of Lisbon has been granted extraordinary ceremonial privileges. The Patriarchs of Lisbon were entitled to unique rights of vesture and ceremony that imitated the grandeur of the papal court: notably, the cassocks of his cathedral canons were scarlet [3] (like those of cardinals), and his chapter has three ...