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Metropolitan Cathedral
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Phone:
(84) 3615-2800

Address:
Av. Floriano Peixoto, 674 | Tirol, Natal, State of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

The Diocese of Funchal was created originally on 12 January 1514, by bull Pro excellenti præeminentia of Pope Leo X, following the elevation of Funchal from a village to the status of town , by King Manuel I of Portugal . The new diocese was a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lisbon. Nineteen years later, on 31 January 1533, it was elevated to Archiepiscopal rank. For twenty-two years it was, in terms of geography, the largest metropolitan ecclesiastical province in the world, with the following suffragan dioceses: Azores, Brazil, Africa and Goa. The first Archbishop was D. Martinho of Portugal, who had the title of Primate. On 3 July 1551, a restructuring of the dioceses of Portugal and the Portuguese empire led to the extinction of the Archdiocese of Funchal and its return to diocesan status. In 1570, Funchal was once more made a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lisbon, as it remains today. None of the first three bishops appointed visited Madeira; only the fourth, Frei Jorge de Lemos, took possession of the see in person. Until the 20th century, the bishops of Funchal used the title of Bishop of Madeira, of Porto Santo, of Desertas and of Arguim. The seat of the Diocese of Funchal is the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption. On 8 March 2007, Pope Benedict XVI appointed António José Cavaco Carrilho as Bishop of Funchal, until then Auxiliary Bishop of Porto. On 17 May 2014, Pope Francis nominated Cardinal Fernando Filoni to preside over the celebrations for the 500th anniversary of the foundation of the diocese.
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