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Chiavassa, Michele Antonio

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CHIAVASSA, MICHELE ANTONIO. - In religion, Giovan Domenico di S. Chiara. Carmelite missionary and bishop. Born at Racconigi (Cuneo, Italy), on 1 March 1710, and made his religious profession on 6 April 1728. From 1740 a missionary in the Great Mogul, and specifically at the station of Karwar (Canara). He was elected, on 15 June 1756, vicar apostolic of the Great Mogul, with the title of bishop of Assunta in partibus, and took up his residence at Karwar (that is, Sunkery), having been prevented by the English government from entering Bombay. He ended his life during the pastoral visitation of the kingdom of Canara, made on behalf of the archbishop of Goa, on 25 January 1772.

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BIBL.: E. Hull, Bombay Mission History, I, Bombay 1927, pp. 66-67, 187; Ambrosius a S. Teresa, Hierarch. Carm., 3rd series Rome 1936, pp. 120-36; F. Xaverius a S. Anna, Annales Miss. de Caruar, ibid. 1939, pp. 24-37; id., Nomenclator Miss. C. D., ibid. 1944, p. 209.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III (1949), coll. 1431–1432.

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Ambrogio di S. Teresa. “Chiavassa, michele antonio.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, coll. 1431–1432. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/chiavassa-michele-antonio.

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Ambrogio di S. Teresa. “Chiavassa, michele antonio.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, coll. 1431–1432. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/chiavassa-michele-antonio.

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  author    = {Ambrogio di S. Teresa},
  title     = {Chiavassa, michele antonio},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {III},
  pages     = {1431--1432},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1949},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/chiavassa-michele-antonio}
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