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{{Short description|Indian Roman Catholic prelate (1927–2022)}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2022}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2022}}
{{Infobox Christian leader
| type = Archbishop Emeritus
| honorific-prefix = [[His Beatitude]]
| name = Raul Nicolau Gonçalves
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| title = {{Plainlist|
* [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Goa and Daman|Archbishop of Goa and Daman]]
* [[Patriarchate of the East Indies|Patriarch of the East Indies]]
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| caption = Archbishop Gonçalves in 2010
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| see = [[Archdiocese of Goa and Daman|Goa and Daman]]
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| appointed = 30 January 1978
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| term_end = 12 December 2003
| predecessor = [[José Vieira Alvernaz]]
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| successor = [[Filipe Neri Ferrão]]
| other_post = [[Patriarch of the East Indies]] (1978–2003)

| ordination = 21 December 1950
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| consecration = 5 March 1967
| consecrated_by = Cardinal [[James Knox]]
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| birth_name = Raul Nicolau Gonçalves
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| birth_place = [[Bambolim]], [[Goa]], [[Portuguese India]]
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| death_place = [[Porvorim]], Goa, India
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'''Raul Nicolau Gonçalves'''{{Efn|The last name is also spelled '''Gonsalves'''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.vatican.edu/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/migrants/documents/rc_pc_migrants_doc_20040729_Bangkok_findoc_po.html |title=Sexto Congresso Mundial sobre a Pastoral do Turismo |date=8 July 2004 |website=vatican.edu |location=Bangkok |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120805203738/http://www.vatican.edu/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/migrants/documents/rc_pc_migrants_doc_20040729_Bangkok_findoc_po.html |archive-date=5 August 2012 |access-date=8 August 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.archgoadaman.org/content/patriarchs |title=Patriarchs |publisher=Archdiocese of Goa and Daman |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130915054819/http://www.archgoadaman.org/content/patriarchs |archive-date=15 September 2013}}</ref>}} (15 June 1927 – 1 July 2022) was an Indian prelate. He was the first [[Goan Catholic|Goan catholic]] to be [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Goa and Daman|Archbishop of Goa]] and Patriarch of the East Indies.<ref name="Vaz">Vaz, J. Clement. Profiles of Eminent Goans, past and Present. New Delhi: Concept Pub., 1997. Print. p. 53</ref>

He was the [[archbishop emeritus]] of Goa.<ref name="CH">{{cite web|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bgonsrn.html|title=Archbishop Raul Nicolau Gonsalves [Catholic-Hierarchy]|first=David M.|last=Cheney|website=www.catholic-hierarchy.org}}</ref> The current Archbishop and Cardinal-Elect Archbishop Filip Neri Ferrao served the [[Archdiocese of Goa and Daman]], as auxiliary bishop, to Raul Nicolau, for about ten years, from 1994 to 2004.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.familyservicecentregoa.org/content_display.php?id=T |title=Diocesan Family Service Centre |accessdate=8 August 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150814050136/http://www.familyservicecentregoa.org/content_display.php?id=T |archivedate=14 August 2015}}</ref>

== Biography ==
Raul Nicolau was born in [[Bambolim]], [[Tiswadi]], and studied at Rachol<ref name="Vaz"/> and later at the [[Pontifical Urban University]] in Rome. He was ordained in the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Goa and Daman|diocese of Goa and Daman]] on 21 December 1950. On 5 January 1967, he was appointed titular bishop of Rapidum, Apostolic Administrator of the archdiocese, and auxiliary bishop of Goa and Daman.<ref name="CH" />

== Named Archbishop ==
On 30 January 1978, [[Pope Paul VI]] through the [[papal bull]] ''Quoniam Archidioecesi'' named him Archbishop of Goa and [[Patriarch of the East Indies]] (and therefore Primate of the East and Titular Archbishop of Cranganore). He retired 16 January 2004, after reaching 75 years of age<ref name="CH" /> the compulsory retirement age, in conformity with the [[1983 Code of Canon Law]] canon 401 § 1.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fides.org/en/news/1526-ASIA_INDIA_GOA_and_DAMAO_ARCHBISHOP_RAUL_GONSALVES_RESIGNS_MGR_FILIPE_NERI_ANTONIO_SEBASTIAO_DO_ROSARIO_FERRAO_APPOINTED_ARCHBISHOP#.VcXJwnjC2tY|title=ASIA/INDIA – GOA and DAMAO, ARCHBISHOP RAUL GONSALVES RESIGNS, MGR FILIPE NERI ANTÓNIO SEBASTIÃO DO ROSARIO FERRÃO APPOINTED ARCHBISHOP – Agenzia Fides|first=Agenzia|last=Fides|website=www.fides.org}}</ref>

He was consecrated by Cardinal James Robert Knox.<ref name="CH" /> He also was the principal consecrant of Dom [[Filipe Neri Ferrão|Filipe Neri António Sebastião do Rosário Ferrão]] and the co-consecrating bishop was Aleixo das Neves Dias, SFX.<ref name="CH" />

== Other achievements ==
He was one of the members of the Commission constituted by then-Archbishop-Patriarch, Dom [[José Vieira Alvernaz]] for the establishment of [[Caritas Internationalis|Caritas]] Goa on 3 January 1962 through Portaria No. 2-62.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.caritasgoa.org/about_us.html |title=About Us |website=www.caritasgoa.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120221003603/http://www.caritasgoa.org/about_us.html |archive-date=21 February 2012}} </ref>

He is credited with being the moving spirit, as the then-Apostolic Administrator, for the setting up of the Diocesan Family Service Centre of the [[Archdiocese of Goa and Daman]] in 1975. Gonçalves "felt the need to establish it, during a very critical time where family life was threatened by the then powers-to-be especially when Emergency was declared and forced sterilization was in vogue as part of controlling the population."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.familyservicecentregoa.org/about-us.php|title=Diocesan Family Service Centre|website=www.familyservicecentregoa.org}}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

The Archdiocese of Goa and Daman's website credits him with being the "first Goan to be appointed Archbishop of Goa and Daman, and Patriarch of the East Indies."<ref>{{cite web |year = 2017 |url = http://www.archgoadaman.org/content/historical-firsts |title = Historical Firsts – Archdiocese of Goa and Daman |publisher = Archdiocese of Goa and Daman |accessdate = 27 April 2017 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20180614171529/http://www.archgoadaman.org/content/historical-firsts |archivedate = 14 June 2018 |df = mdy-all |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Gonçalves has been a member of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/migrants/pom2004_96-suppl/rc_pc_migrants_pom96-suppl_elenco-part.html|title=People on the Move, No 96 (Suppl.)|website=www.vatican.va}}</ref>

Gonçalves assumed the helm of the Goan Church amidst a changing political situation. After Portuguese rule in Goa was ended by Indian military action, the Portuguese Archbishop-Patriarch Alvernaz left for Portugal and retired to his home in the [[Azores]] but remained the formal Patriarch of Goa till his resignation in 1975. From December 1963 the Archdiocese of Goa was governed by its first Indian Bishop, Msgr. Francisco da Piedade Rebello, as Apostolic Administrator. Beginning in 1967 he was assisted by Gonçalves as Auxiliary Bishop. Gonçalves succeeded him as an Apostolic Administrator in 1972. After 1975, when Portugal recognised the end of their rule in Goa following a change of leadership in Lisbon, Bishop Gonçalves became the first Goan to actually become the Archbishop-Patriarch of Goa, in 1978.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.heraldgoa.in/Review/Reminiscences-Of-Goa%E2%80%99s-Liberation/82454.html|title=Reminiscences Of Goa's Liberation|publisher=|access-date=8 August 2015|archive-date=1 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151001215347/http://www.heraldgoa.in/Review/Reminiscences-Of-Goa%E2%80%99s-Liberation/82454.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

With his appointment, it was argued that "for the first time... Goa's Roman Catholic patriarch is a Goan".<ref name="Toledo">{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19860727&id=gg4wAAAAIBAJ&pg=3188,716033&hl=en|title=Toledo Blade – Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com}}</ref> Prior to this "the appointee for centuries was Portuguese."<ref name="Toledo" />

== Death ==
After his retirement, Archbishop Emeritus kept a low profile, confining himself to pastoral works. He died on 1 July 2022 at JMJ Hospital in Goa where he had been hospitalised for the last 10 days. He celebrated his 95th birthday on 15 June 2022 and shepherded the Archdiocese of Goa and Daman for 37 long years as its Archbishop and Patriarch of the East Indies.<ref>{{cite web|title=Patriarch Raul Nicolau Gonsalves † |url=https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bgonsrn.html |website=Catholic-Hierarchy.org |access-date=12 July 2022}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[In partibus infidelium]]

== Notes ==
{{Noteslist}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* [http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/eind0.htm#1431 GCatholic]
* [http://www.supergoa.com/pt/read/news_cronica.asp?c_news=382 supergoa.com] {{Webarchive|url=http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20150813202744/http%3A//www.supergoa.com/pt/read/news_cronica.asp?c_news%3D382 |date=13 August 2015 }}

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