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'''Domingos Torrado, [[Order of Saint Augustine|O.S.A.]]''' (1555–1612) was a Roman Catholic prelate who was named as Titular Bishop of ''Fisicula'' (1605–1612).<ref name=HierarchiaIV-Fisicula>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/hierarchiacathol04eubeuoft/page/188/mode/2up?view=theaterview=theater|last1=Gauchat|first1=Patritius (Patrice)|title=Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi | volume=IV|pages=188|date=1935|publisher=Libraria Regensbergiana|location=Münster|isbn=}} ''(in Latin)''</ref> He is also known as '''Domingos Terrado''' or '''Domingos da Trinidade'''.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Domingos Torrado da Trinidade was born in [[Elvas]], Portugal<ref name=Boletim>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tMxAAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Torrado%22&pg=PA460|first=|last=|authorlink=|title=Boletim da Sociedade de Geographia de Lisboa|pages=460 |publisher=|date=Jan 1893|isbn=|language=Portuguese}}</ref> in 1555 and ordained a priest in the [[Order of Saint Augustine]].<ref name=CathHierDomTorr>{{cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|title=Bishop Domingos Torrado, O.S.A. † |website=[[Catholic-Hierarchy.org]]|url=https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/btorrdd.html |accessdate=January 7, 2022}} [[Wikipedia:Verifiability#Reliable sources|{{sup|{{small|[''self-published'']}}}}]]</ref> <br />
He served as vicar general of his congregation.<ref name=Boletim/> <br />
He traveled to Asia where he founded a [[convent]] in [[Colombo]].<ref name=Boletim/><br />
On 7 Feb 1605, he was appointed during the papacy of [[Pope Clement VIII]] as [[Titular Bishop]] of ''Fiscula'' and [[auxiliary Bishop]] of the [[Archdiocese of Goa]]<ref name=HierarchiaIV-Fisicula /><ref name=CathHierDomTorr /> (some sources name him as titular bishop of ''Salé'').<ref name=Boletim/><br />
On 13 Apr 1608, he was consecrated bishop by [[Alexeu de Jesu de Meneses]], [[Archbishop of Goa]].<ref name=CathHierDomTorr /><br />
In 1610, de Meneses returned to Europe and Torrado served as administrator of the Archdiocese.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5lJFAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Domingos+da+Trindade%22&pg=PA482|first=Lady Isabel|last=Burton|authorlink=|title=Arabia, Egypt, India: A Narrative of Travel|pages=412 |publisher=Franklin Classics|date=October 12, 2018|isbn= 978-0342604609}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RH4VPgB__GQC&dq=domingos+torrado+da+trindade&pg=PA471|first=Stephen|last=Neill|authorlink=|title=A History of Christianity in India: The Beginnings to AD 1707|pages=471 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |date=January 29, 2004|isbn=9780521548854}}</ref> <br />
On 21 January 1612, [[Pope Paul V]] separated the east coast of Africa (from the [[Cape Guardafui|Cape of Guardafui]] in the north to the [[Cape of Good Hope]] in the south) from the territory of the Archdiocese of Goa creating a separate ecclesiastical territory (''[[prelature nullius]]'') and named Torrado as the first [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maputo|Administrator of the Prelature of Mozambique]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kenny, O.P.|first1=Joseph|title=The Catholic Church in Tropical Africa 1445-1850|date=1982|publisher=Ibadan University Press & Dominican Publications|url=http://www.dhspriory.org/kenny/ccta/DefaultCCTA.htm|accessdate=9 September 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160207035006/http://www.dhspriory.org/kenny/ccta/DefaultCCTA.htm|archivedate=7 February 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.scielo.org.za/pdf/she/v39n2/19.pdf|first=Júlio André |last=Vilanculos|authorlink=|title=The role played by Church and State in the democratisation process in Mozambique, 1975-2004 |pages= |publisher=Department of Church History and Church Polity, [[University of Pretoria]]|date=|isbn=|quote=The second missionary expedition in Mozambique began in January 1612 after the papal bull was issued by Pope Paulo V, who elevated Mozambique to a “Prelature Nullius”. Prelature Nullius means a certain area of Roman Catholic Church that is functioning without a Prelate/Bishop. In such a situation, the Pope chooses an Administrator to run the activities of the Church.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I_UQW4RSs4sC&dq=%22Domingos+Terrado%22&pg=PA363|first=George McCall |last=Theal|authorlink=|title=The Beginning of South African History|pages=363 |publisher= Wentworth Press|date=March 7, 2019|isbn= 978-0530428659}}</ref> <br />
He never succeeded as Administrator of Mozambique as he died on 30 Dec 1612 in [[Goa]].<ref name=HierarchiaIV-Fisicula /><ref name=CathHierDomTorr /><br />
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== References ==<br />
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==External links and additional sources==<br />
* {{cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|title=Fisicula (Titular See) Fisiculensis Suppressed |website=[[Catholic-Hierarchy.org]]|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d2f42.html|accessdate=January 10, 2022}} [[Wikipedia:Verifiability#Reliable sources|{{sup|{{small|[''self-published'']}}}}]]<br />
* {{cite web|last=Chow |first=Gabriel|title=Bishops who are not Ordinaries: Bishop Domingos Torrado, O.E.S.A.|website=GCatholic.org|url=http://www.gcatholic.org/hierarchy/data/bishops-TI.htm#58087|accessdate=January 10, 2022}} [[Wikipedia:Verifiability#Reliable sources|{{sup|{{small|[''self-published'']}}}}]]<br />
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