BARBOSA, AGOSTINHO. - Canonist, born in Guimarães (Portugal) on 17 Sept. 1590. He earned degrees in both civil and canon law at Coimbra, and shortly thereafter went to Rome, where he spent several years in study. He was appointed consultor to the Sacred Congregation of the Index and Apostolic Protonotary. In 1632 he went to Madrid, where he soon gained the favor of Philip IV. Named bishop of Ugento in May 1649, he died there on 19 Nov. of the same year.
The principal works of B. are the following: *Remissiones doctorum super varia loca Concilii Tridentini* (Lisbon 1618), placed on the Index by decree of 6 June 1621, republished in 1642 under the title *Collectanea eorum Doctorum qui in suis operibus Concilii Tridentini loca referentes illorum materiam incidenter tractarunt* and no longer included in the Index by Leo XIII; *Collectanea Doctorum tam veterum quam recentiorum in ius pontificium universum* (Rome 1626); *Iuris canonici interpretationes selectae sive praetermissa et additamenta ad Collectanea doctorum tam veterum quam recentiorum in pontificium ius universum* (Rome 1626), which constitutes the sixth volume of the Lyons edition of 1688 of the *Collectanea*; *Iuris ecclesiastici universi libri III in quibus de personis, de locis, de rebus ecclesiasticis plenissime agitur* (Lyons 1633-34); *Repertorium iuris civilis et canonici* (ibid. 1675).