Manuel Álvares da Costa
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D. Manuel Álvares da Costa |
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| Bishop of Angra | |
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| Church | Sé Cathedral of Angra |
| Province | São João Evangalista |
| Diocese | Angra |
| Appointed | 20 January 1721 |
| Installed | 30 March 1721 |
| Term ended | 1733 |
| Predecessor | João de Brito e Vasconcelos |
| Successor | Valério do Sacramento, O.F.M. |
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| Born | 24 August 1651 Lisbon |
| Died | 10 January 1733 Angra |
D. Manuel Álvares da Costa (Lisbon, 24 August 1651 — Angra, 10 January 1733), also known as Manuel Álvares da Costa Claumann, was the 5th Bishop of the Diocese of Olinda, in Pernambuco (today the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Olinda e Recife), from 1706 to 1721, and 19th Bishop of the Diocese of Angra, from 1721 to 1733. He governed Pernambuco during the Mascate War.
D. Manuel Álvares da Costa was ordained on 26 July 1674, beginning an ecclesiastic career that took him to the priory of Santa Justa, the vicar-general of the Archbishopric of Lisbon (1705) and judge of Lisbon Ecclesiastical courts.
He became the Bishop of the Diocese of Olinda on 7 June 1706 (confirmed on 27 February 1707 by the apostolic nuncio in Lisbon, Michelangelo de Conti, the future Pope Innocent XIII) and left shortly after for Brazil. During his tenure in Olinda he was instrumental in the events associated with the Mascate War, a conflict between mercantile groups in Olinda and Recife. He took over the governorship of the Captaincy of Pernambuco in 1709, following Sebastião de Castro Caldas Barbosa being removed to Bahia for the invasions and revolts that occurred during the War. He remained governor until 1711, when he was succeeded by Felix José de Mendonça.
On 20 January 1721 he was presented as the Bishop of the Diocese of Angra. Although it is unclear when he arrived in Angra, in his letter of introduction to the canon (dated 30 March 1721), he gave power of authority to deacon Francisco da Fonseca Carvão, who nominated an ecclesiastical governor. His pastoral actions in the Azores began with visits to the parishes on the island of Terceira, in 1722, wherein he criticized the local clergy for their indoctrination on Sundays and holy days. During this tenure he attempted to revitalize the processions around the churches, with the assistance of Confraria do Santíssimo (Confraternity of the Blessed); and was responsible for normalizing the clothing used by clerics, prohibiting hoods and cloaks.
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