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The First Catholic Diocese in Asia and the Spread of Catholicism: Juan de Albuquerque, Bishop of Goa, 1538–1553

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2022

José Pedro Paiva
José Pedro Paiva*
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Center for the History of Society and Culture, University of Coimbra, Portugal
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Abstract

This article offers an interpretation of the actions of the Franciscan Juan de Albuquerque as bishop of the first Catholic diocese in Asia. The analysis considers the local impacts of the episcopal government and the connectivities of its action, particularly through comparison with similar processes adopted in Spanish America. Based on a wide range of historical sources and cross-referencing them, it investigates how Albuquerque governed in three stages: first, describing the enormous challenges he faced; second, outlining his profile; and third, proposing a reconstruction of his government and the implications it had on the dissemination of Catholicism. The hypothesis raised at the outset is that, in Asia, the Bishop of Goa built a structure that was inspired by the matrix and dynamics of the Portuguese dioceses, which were then adapted to the specificities of the local situation. Accordingly, it is necessary to review the thesis of Charles Boxer, for whom the dynamics of evangelization in the spaces overseen by the Iberian empires from the 16th century onwards were generated essentially by the missionaries from the regular clergy and by the monarchies. By shifting the focus to the actions of a single bishop, the article demonstrates that Albuquerque, the diocesan church he created from scratch, and the secular clergy should not be underestimated.

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Foundation of Goa DioceseJuan the AlbuquerqueEarly Modern CatholicismConnected History
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Church History , Volume 90 , Issue 4 , December 2021 , pp. 776 - 798
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of American Society of Church History

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This article was supported by the project “ReligionAJE: Religion, Ecclesiastical Administration and Justice in the Portuguese Seaborne Empire (1514–1750),” PTDC/HAR-HIS/28719/2017, which is sponsored by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, FCT, H2020, and FEDER through COMPETE.

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55 Gaspar Correia, Lendas da Índia (Lisbon: Academia Real das Sciencias, 1864), 4.1:11.

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59 Rego, Documentação, 2:265–290.

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61 The choirmaster of Goa cathedral to King John III, Rome, 31 October 1542, in Rego, Documentação, 2:322–323.

62 Rego, Documentação, 3:322–323.

63 The reference to the salaries can be found in the Tombo da Índia done by Simão Botelho and finished in 1554, published in Rodrigo José de Lima Felner, ed., Subsídios para a História da Índia Portuguesa (Lisbon: Academia Real das Sciencias, 1868), 69.

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76 Henrique Henriques, a Jesuit, to the Jesuit College in Coimbra, Punicale, 6 December 1547, in Wicki, Documenta, 1:225–226; and Henrique Manuel de Morais, a Jesuit, to Simão Rodrigues, Periya Talai, 11 December 1547, in Wicki, Documenta, 1:236.

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89 Order of the Estado da Índia treasurer Fernando Rodrigues Castelo Branco, dated from Goa on 30 June 1541, in Rego, Documentação, 2:299–300.

90 Felner, Subsídios, 23, 27.

91 Miguel Vaz to the king, Cochin, 6 January 1543, in Documentação para a História das Missões do Padroado Português no Oriente: Insulíndia, ed. Artur Basílio de Sá (Lisbon: Agência Geral do Ultramar, 1955), 1:381.

92 Juan de Albuquerque to Queen Catherine, Goa, October 1549, in Rego, Documentação, 4:349.

93 Order of Juan de Albuquerque, dated from Goa on 29 March 1546, in Rego, Documentação, 3:331–332.

94 Alberts, Conflict and Conversion, 20.

95 Felner, Subsídios, 30, 39, 110, 128, 132, 241.

96 Felner, Subsídios, 95–96.

97 João Nunes, “O clero secular,” in História da Diocese de Viseu, ed. José Pedro Paiva (Viseu: Diocese de Viseu, 2016), 2:273.

98 Wicki, Documenta, 1:744–745.

99 Wicki, Documenta, 1:471–476.

100 Carlos Mercês de Melo, The Recruitment and Formation of the Native Clergy in India (16th–19th Centuries): A Historical-Canonical Study (Lisbon: Agencia Geral do Ultramar, 1955), 68.

101 Corpo Diplomático Portuguez contendo os actos e relações políticas e diplomáticas de Portugal com as diversas potencias do mundo desde o século XVI até aos nossos dias (Lisbon: Academia Real das Sciencias, 1898), 11:522–524.

102 Niccolò Lancilotti, a Jesuit, to Loyola, Goa, 5 November 1546, in Wicki, Documenta, 1:138; and Juan de Albuquerque to Queen Catherine, Goa, October 1549, in Rego, Documentação, 4:357.

103 Wicki, Documenta, 1:568.

104 Francis Xavier to Francisco Mansilha, Cochin, 18 December 1544, in Rego, Documentação, 3:128.

105 Magnus Lundberg, Unification and Conflict: The Church Politics of Alonso de Montúfar OP, Archbishop of Mexico, 1554–1572 (Uppsala: Swedish Institute of Missionary Research, 2002), 73.

106 Bireley, Refashioning of Catholicism, 154.

107 Wicki, Documenta, 1:745–746.

108 Viceroy Afonso de Noronha to the Jesuit Simão Rodrigues, Cochin, 5 January 1551, in Wicki, Documenta, 2:139–141.

109 Pedro Fernandes to the king, Goa, 1550, in Wicki, Documenta, 1:745.

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111 Juan de Albuquerque to Viceroy João de Castro, Cochin, 26 November 1547, in Rego, Documentação, 3:525–527.

112 Manuel de Morais to the Jesuit College of Coimbra, Colombo, 28 November 1552, in Wicki, Documenta, 2:431–435. See also Documentação Ultramarina Portuguesa (Lisbon: Centro de Estudos Históricos Ultramarinos, 1960), 1:612.

113 Gil González Davila, Teatro eclesiastico de la primitiva Iglesia de las Indias Occidentales, vidas de sus arzobispos, obispos y cosas memorables de sus sedes (Madrid: Diego Diaz de la Carrera, 1649), 1:22.

114 Juan de Albuquerque to the king, Goa, 5 November 1548, in Rego, Documentação, 4:111.

115 Manuel de Morais to the Jesuit College in Coimbra, Colombo, 28 November 1552, in Wicki, Documenta, 2:429.

116 Juan de Albuquerque to Viceroy João de Castro, Cochin, 28 November 1547, in ANTT, Coleção de São Lourenço, vol. 2, fol. 405v–406r.

117 Lundberg, Unification and Conflict, 97.

118 Monforte, Chronica, 402.

119 Correia, Lendas, 4.1:406.

120 Respectively, Juan de Albuquerque to the king, Goa, 5 November 1548, in Rego, Documentação, 4:108–109; and Charles Martial De Witte, “Aux origines de la congrégaion indienne de l'ordre des frères Prêcheurs (1546–1580),” Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum 36 (1966): 470.

121 Juan de Albuquerque to the king, Goa, 28 November 1548, in Rego, Documentação, 4:138.

122 Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (Lisbon), Henrique Bravo de Morais, Noticia de como e quando se erigio a cathedral de Goa e dos bispos e arcebispos que nella houve, códice 176, fol. 125r.

123 Rego, Documentação, 3:354.

124 The Brotherhood of the Rosary to the King, Goa, 25 October 1549, in Rego, Documentação, 4:359.

125 Ângela Barreto Xavier, “Conversos and Novamente Convertidos: Law, Religion, and Identity in the Portuguese Kingdom and Empire,” Journal of Early Modern History 15 (2011): 255–287; and Giuseppe Marcocci, A consciência de um império: Portugal e o seu mundo (sécs. XV–XVII) (Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2012), 380–382.

126 Xavier, A invenção, 27, 81–144.

127 On jobs for the converted natives, see the interesting insights of Giuseppe Marcocci, “Catholic Missions and Native Subaltern Workers: Connected Micro-Histories of Labour from India and Brazil, ca. 1545–1560,” in Micro-Spatial Histories of Global Labour, ed. Christian G. de Vito and Anne Gerritsen (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), 69–93.

128 Strathern, Kingship, 86, 95, 100. See also L. Bourdon, Les débuts de l”Évangelisation de Ceylan vers le milieu do XVIeme siècle d'aprés des documents récemment publiés (Lisbon: Institut Français au Portugal, 1936), 11–12, 14.

129 Sá, Documentação, 1:450.

130 Francisco Perez, a Jesuit, to the Jesuits of Goa Melaka, 24 November 1550, in Wicki, Documenta, 2:110.

131 Sá, Documentação, 1:589–592.

132 Rego, Documentação, 4:59–65.

133 Monforte, Chronica, 410–412; and Strathern, “Os Piedosos,” 860.

134 Juan de Albuquerque to Gaspar Berzé, Goa, 25 March 1550, in Rego, Documentação, 4:502–504.

135 Juan de Albuquerque to the Queen, Goa, 20 October 1549, in Rego, Documentação, 4:347.

136 Rego, Documentação, 4:551–453. This translation is intended to reflect the fact that the Portuguese original is not very clear.

137 Rego, Documentação, 4:446–447.

138 Gaspar Berzé to the Jesuit College in Coimbra, Hormuz, 24 November 1550, in Wicki, Documenta, 2:83.

139 De Witte, “Aux origines,” 470.

140 Rego, Documentação, 5:80.

141 Viriato A. C. B. de Albuquerque, “Baptismos solemnes em Goa,” O Oriente Portuguez 2, no. 9 (1905): 446.

142 Niccolò Lancilotti, a Jesuit, to the Jesuit Simão Rodrigues, Goa, 22 October 1545, in Wicki, Documenta, 1:31–32.

143 González Davila, Teatro eclesiastico, 1:26; and Ricard, La conquista, 142.

144 The same strategy was adopted in Mexico, see Crew, “Bautizando,” 951.

145 António de Paiva, a Jesuit, to the Queen, Goa, 30 November 1545, in Sá, Documentação, 1:463.

146 ANTT, Coleção de São Lourenço, vol. 3, fol. 54–58.

147 For the conversion of Loku, the best source is the letter from Juan de Albuquerque to the king, written from Goa on 28 November 28 1548, in Rego, Documentação, 4:131–133. For the baptism of Anjirō, see the letter from Paulo de Santa Fé to Loyola, written from Goa on 29 November 1548, in Wicki, Documenta, 1:339.

148 Documentação Ultramarina Portuguesa, 1:618.

149 Juan de Albuquerque to the Queen, Goa, 29 October 1549, in Rego, Documentação, 4:348–357. For the analysis of king of Tanur's conversion, see also Ines G. Županov, Missionary Tropics: The Catholic Frontiers in India (16th–17th Centuries) (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2005), 133–138.

150 Rodrigo Barbudo to the king, Goa, 28 December 1548, in Wicki, Documenta, 1:408.

151 Juan de Albuquerque to the king, Goa, 28 November 1548, in Rego, Documentação, 4:133.

152 João de Vila do Conde, a Franciscan, to the viceroy, João de Castro, Goa, 16 March 1547, in Rego, Documentação, 3:498–499. According to some authors, these “negros and negresses” were slaves, see Georg Schurhammer, Francis Xavier: His Life, His Times (Rome: The Jesuit Historical Institute, 1982), 3:299.

153 ANTT, Coleção de São Lourenço, vol. 2, fol. 419r–20v.

154 Patrícia Souza de Faria, A conquista das almas do Oriente: Franciscanos, catolicismo e poder colonial em Goa (1540–1750) (Rio de Janeiro: 7Letras, 2013), 71; and Amaro Pinto Lobo, Memória histórico-eclesiástica da arquidiocese de Goa (Nova Goa: Voz de S. Francisco Xavier, 1933), 105.

155 There is evidence from other periods and places confirming that Franciscans also circulated accounts around their institutions, “producing a Franciscan global knowledge network.” McClure, The Franciscan Invention, 50–51.

156 González Davila, Teatro eclesiastico, 1:21; and Alberto Maria Carreño, “The Books of Don Fray Juan de Zumárraga,” The Americas 5, no. 3 (1949): 314. The first book he produced was Alberto Maria Carreño, Breve y mas compendiosa doctrina en lengua mexicana y castellana que contiene las cosas más necesarias de nuestra sancta fe católica para aprovechameniento destos indios naturales y salvacion de sus ánimas (Mexico: Juan Pablos, 1539).

157 Documentação Ultramarina Portuguesa, 1:529–530; and Monforte, Chronica, 404–405.

158 For the king's support, see Rivara, Archivo Portuguez-Oriental, 5.1:161–163.

159 Wicki, Documenta, 1:118.

160 ANTT, Corpo Cronológico, I parte, m. 68, doc. 91.

161 Monforte, Chronica, 403.

162 Miguel Vaz to the king, Cochin, 6 January 1543, in Rego, Documentação, 2:343.

163 Rego, Documentação, 3:330–332.

164 António Ponce to the king, Goa, October 1548, in Rego, Documentação, 4:55.

165 C. R. Boxer, Race Relations in the Portuguese Colonial Empire 1415–1825 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1963), 61–62; and Marcocci, A consciência de um império, 387.

166 Wicki, Documenta, 1:12–16.

167 Wicki, Documenta, 2:125–126.

168 Manuel Nunes to the Queen, Goa, 20 December 1552, in Rego, Documentação, 5:297.

169 For example Rego, História das missões, 203, 221; Melo, Recruitment and Formation, 17; Mendonça, Conversions and Citizenry, 7, 10, 20, 23, 109; Aranha, Il cristianesimo, 118–134; and Pius Malenkandathil, “Diocese do Funchal e estratégias missionárias na Índia: 1514–1550,” in Diocese do Funchal: A primeira diocese global; História, cultura e espiritualidades, ed. José Eduardo Franco and João Paulo Oliveira e Costa (Funchal: Diocese do Funchal, 2015), 184–185.

170 Xavier, A invenção, 99–109; and Xavier, “Conversos,” 277.

171 Rego, Documentação, 2:324–344; and Wicki, Documenta, 1:63–89.

172 Wicki, Documenta, 1:92.