Agostinho Barbosa
{{short description|Roman Catholic bishop}}
{{Infobox Christian leader
| type =
| honorific-prefix = Most Reverend
| name = Agostinho Barbosa
| title = Bishop of Ugento
| image = Portret van Augustinus Barbosa, RP-P-1905-1225.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Agostinho Barbosa in a 1622 engraving.
| church = Catholic Church
| archdiocese =
| diocese = Diocese of Ugento
| see =
| term = 1648–1649
| predecessor = Girolamo Martini
| successor = Andreas Lanfranchi
| ordination = 19 September 1615
| ordained_by =
| consecration = 5 April 1649
| consecrated_by = Alfonso de la Cueva, 1st Marquis of Bedmar
| rank =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1589|9|17}}
| birth_place = Aldão, Guimarães, Portugal
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1649|3|22|1589|9|17}}
| previous_post =
| nationality =
| alma_mater = University of Coimbra
}}
Agostinho Barbosa (Agostino, Augustinus) (17 September 1589, at Aldão, Guimarães, Portugal – 22 March 1649, in Ugento, Italy) was a prolific Portuguese writer on canon law. His work included dictionary-type surveys of the legal elements.[http://www.hespanha.net/papers/2006_form-and-content-in-early-modern-legal-books.PDF António Manuel Hespanha, Form and content in early modern legal books: Bridging material bibliography with history of legal thought (PDF, p. 20), = Portuguese Journal of Social Science, Volume 6, Issue 1, August 2007, pp. 33-59.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070812130918/http://www.hespanha.net/papers/2006_form-and-content-in-early-modern-legal-books.PDF |date=August 12, 2007 }}Constant van de Wiel, History of Canon Law (1991), p. 160.
Life
Having studied canon law in Portugal, he went to Rome. Being without the means to purchase books, he memorized their contents in libraries. About 1632 he went to Madrid, where he applied himself to writing and fulfilled various duties confided to him until 1648. He was consecrated Bishop of Ugento in Rome on 22 March 1649.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/hierarchiacathol04eubeuoft#page/350|last1=Gauchat|first1=Patritius (Patrice)|title=Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi | volume=IV|pages=351|date=1935|publisher=Libraria Regensbergiana|location=Münster}} (in Latin)
Works
His works fill at least 30 volumes.[http://traditionalcatholic.net/Tradition/Canon_Law/index.html Codex Iuris Canonici] They show intimate acquaintance with authors, sources, and controversial questions such as the following:
- Pastoralis Sollicitudinis, sive de Officio et Potestate Episcopi Tripartita Descriptio (Rome, 1621; Lyons, 1629; in folio, 1641, 1650, etc.).
- Variae Juris Tractationes, a similar work relating to parish priests was published in Rome in 1632, Lyons, 1634, Geneva, 1662, Venice, 1705, in quarto; in folio, Lyons, 1631 and 1644, Strasburg, 1652.
- Juris Ecclesiastici Universi Libri III (Lyons, 1633, 1645, 1718).
All the canonical works of Barbosa were published at Lyons, 1657–75, in 19 vols. In quinto, 16 vols. in folio, and again, 1698–1716, 20 vols. in quinto, 18 vols. in folio.
References
- Hurter in Kirchenlexikon, s. v.
- {{cite book|author-link=Franz Xavier Wernz|first=Franz Xavier|last=Wernz|title=Jus Decretalium|volume=I|location=Rome|year=1898|page=408}}
Notes
External links and additional sources
- {{cite encyclopedia
|last = Besta
|first = Enrico
|date = 1930
|title = BARBOSA, Agostino
|url = https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/agostino-barbosa_(Enciclopedia-Italiana)
|encyclopedia = Enciclopedia Italiana
|location = Rome
|publisher = Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
|access-date = 20 February 2025
}}
- {{cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|title=Diocese of Ugento–Santa Maria di Leuca |website=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dugen.html |access-date=June 16, 2018}} (for Chronology of Bishops) Wikipedia:SPS
- {{Cite web|last=Chow |first=Gabriel|title=Diocese of Ugento–Santa Maria di Leuca (Italy)|publisher=GCatholic.org|url=http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/ugen0.htm|access-date=June 16, 2018}} (for Chronology of Bishops) Wikipedia:SPS
- {{Catholic Encyclopedia |wstitle=Agostino Barbosa |volume=2 |first=Andrew B. |last=Meehan}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080706162136/http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/rare/dictsweb/r_Barbosa.html Tarlton Law Library page]
{{s-start}}
{{s-rel|ca}}
{{succession box
| title = Bishop of Ugento
| years = 1649
| before = Girolamo Martini
| after = Andreas Lanfranchi}}
{{s-end}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Barboa, Agostino}}
Category:Portuguese Roman Catholic bishops
Category:17th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops
Category:People from Guimarães