Alexandre da Sagrada Família
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D. Friar Alexandre da Sagrada Família O.F.M. |
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| Bishop of Angra | |
Official Portrait in the Museum of Angra
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| Church | Sé Cathedral of Angra |
| Province | São João Evangalista |
| Diocese | Angra |
| Appointed | 12 July 1816 |
| Installed | 4 November 1816 |
| Term ended | 22 April 1818 |
| Predecessor | José Pegado de Azevedo |
| Successor | Manuel Nicolau de Almeida |
| Other posts | Bishop of São Paulo de Luanda |
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| Ordination | 11 June 1761 |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Alexandre José da Silva |
| Born | 22 May 1737 Horta (Azores), Portugal |
| Died | 22 April 1818 Angra (Azores), Portugal |
| Nationality | Portuguese |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Residence | Angra |
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| Occupation | Bishop |
| Profession | Theologian/Orator |
Alexandre da Sagrada Família (Horta, 22 May 1737 — Angra, 22 April 1818), born Alexandre José da Silva (sometimes referred to as António Ferreira da Silva in biographies), was the 25th Bishop of Angra, governing between 1816 until his death in 1818. The first Bishop born in the Azores (and only repeated in the 20th century by António de Sousa Braga), known as a poet, he was the paternal uncle of Almeida Garrett, and stayed with his parents, when he visited Terceira.
Alexandre José da Silva was born in a house along Rua de Santa Ana, in Horta, on the island of Faial, eldest son of ensign José Ferreira da Silva (native of Santa Catarina do Monte Sinai in Lisboa), and Antónia Margarida Garrett (of Madrid).He was baptised by ouvidor Domingos Pereira Cardoso, on 2 June 1737, in the parochial church of Horta, in the presence of his godparents Dr. Alexandre de Moura and his wife, D. Isabel Maria. From a large family, he was one of ten children, many of whom followed him in ecclesiastical service, including Archdeacon Manuel Inácio da Silva and canon Inácio da Silva Garrett (both clergy at the Sé Cathedral in Angra).
He participated in classes supported by Franciscan Friars at the Convent of Santo António in Horta, under the tutelage of teacher and spiritual orientor Friar Ivo da Cruz. He was a diligente and talented student, so much that the brothers stopped his instruction, claiming "there was no more that they could teach". Alexandre's father died in Horta on 18 May 1753, when he was 16 years old.
Destined for an ecclesiastical career, in 1758 (at 21 years of age) he received his first tonsure, and by 1759 appeared as presbytery in a process, where he testified in Horta.
On 11 June 1761 he became a novice in the Convent of Nossa Senhora dos Anjos de Brancanes in Setúbal (later garrison and then prison of Brancanes, until its closure in 2007). On 13 June 1762 he began to orate in the convent, taking on the religious name Friar Alexandre da Sagrada Família (sometimes written as Alexandre da Sacra Família).
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