Archdiocese of Évora
Eboren(sis)
Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Évora, Portugal
The Archdiocese of Évora is a Latin rite metropolitan archdiocese in the Alentejo region of southern Portugal, raised to archiepiscopal rank in 1544. It heads the ecclesiastical province of Évora, with Beja and Faro as suffragan dioceses, and is led by Archbishop Francisco Senra Coelho, appointed in 2018.
The see
- Rank
- Metropolitan see
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1165
- Latin
- Eboren(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001383
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 245,900
- Population
- 290,000
- Catholic share
- 84.8%
- Extent
- 13,547 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 18
of the people living within its bounds
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Archbishop
- Francisco José Villas-Boas Senra de Faria Coelho
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption, Évora stands in Évora, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Évora
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of BejaBeja
- Diocese of FaroFaro
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
With Évora Cathedral as its see, the Archdiocese of Évora (Latin: Archidioecesis Eborensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Portugal whose suffragans are the diocese of Beja and the diocese of Faro. Francisco José Vilas Boas Senra de Faria Coelho has been archbishop of Évora since 2018, while José Francisco Sanches Alves, who held the office from 2008 to 2018, is archbishop emeritus.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Cúria Arquiepiscopal, Largo Marquês de Marialva 6, 7000-809 Évora, Portugal
- Telephone
- 266.748.850
- [email protected]
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it, are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].