Estevão de Brito

{{Short description|Portuguese Jesuit and Roman Catholic prelate}}

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| name = Estevão de Brito

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| term = 1624–1641

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| successor = Francisco Garcia Mendes

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| birth_date = 1567

| birth_place = Estremoz, Portugal

| death_date = 2 December 1641

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Estevão de Brito, S.J. (1567–1641), in Latin Stephanus de Britto, was a Portuguese Jesuit and Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Cranganore (1624–1641) and Titular Bishop of Salona (1621–1624).{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/hierarchiacathol04eubeuoft|last1=Gauchat|first1=Patritius (Patrice)|title=HIERARCHIA CATHOLICA MEDII ET RECENTIORIS AEVI Vol IV|pages=302 and 167|date=1935|publisher=Libraria Regensbergiana|location=Münster|isbn=}} (in Latin)[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbritos.html "Archbishop Etienne de Brito, S.J."] Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved October 17, 2017[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dc518.html "Archdiocese of Cranganore (Angamala)"] Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016[http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/cran2.htm "Archdiocese of Cranganor"] GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016

Biography

Estevão de Brito was born in Estremoz, Portugal in 1567 and professed a priest in the Society of Jesus in 1603.

On 11 January 1621, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Paul V as Titular Bishop of Salona and Coadjutor Archbishop of Cranganore.

Om 18 February 1624, he succeeded to the bishopric.

On 29 September 1624, he was consecrated bishop by Sebastião de São Pedro, Bishop of Cochin.

He served as Archbishop of Cranganore until his death on 2 December 1641.

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