Also known as:
Patriarch of Abyssinia, Patriarch of Ethiopia;
Italian: João Nunes Barreto;
Portuguese: João Nunes Barreto
NÚÑEZ BARRETO, JOÃO. - Jesuit, first patriarch of Abyssinia, b. at Porto, d. at Goa (India) on 22 Dec. 1562.
Having entered the Society of Jesus as a priest (1544), he first devoted himself at Tetouan in Morocco, above all to the ransoming of Christian slaves, until on 24 Jan. 1554 he was chosen by John III of Portugal, on the recommendation of St. Ignatius himself, as patriarch of Ethiopia. In 1555 he set out from Rome with Melchiorre Carneiro and Andrea Oviedo, appointed as his coadjutors, and with nine other companions for Lisbon, where his consecration and that of the coadjutors took place; thence he sailed for Goa. From there Fr. Gonzalo Rodriguez had already preceded him into Ethiopia; having found the formerly favorable dispositions of Emperor Claudius (Galšwdewos) toward union with Rome changed, he had been obliged to turn back. N. then stayed at Goa awaiting better times, which however he did not see. Meanwhile he had sent his coadjutor Oviedo to Ethiopia (1557), who preached there amid hardships and dangers, but with little fruit, ending his life in extreme abandonment among the amba of Abyssinia (1577).
Bibliography5 worksP. Paes, Historia Aethiopiae (C. Beccari, Rerum Aethiopicarum scriptore), III, Rome 1907, chaps. 5-11; F. Rodriguez, Historia da Companhia d
BIBL.: P. Paes, Historia Aethiopiae (C. Beccari, Rerum Aethiopicarum scriptore), III, Rome 1907, chaps. 5-11; F. Rodriguez, Historia da Companhia de Jesus na Assistência do Portugal, I, 1, Porto 1931, pp. 432-34; I, II, ibid. 1931, pp. 558-64, 568-84; I. Ortiz de Urbina, L'Etiopia e la S. Sede nel sec. XVI, in Civ. Catt., 1934, IV, pp. 382-98; P. Tacchi Venturi, Storia della C. di G., in Italia, II, II, Rome 1951, pp. 559-65.
Testore, Celestino. “Nunez Barreto, joão.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, coll. 2020–2021. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/nunez-barreto-joao.
MLA
Testore, Celestino. “Nunez Barreto, joão.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, coll. 2020–2021. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/nunez-barreto-joao.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec8_nunez_barreto_joao,
author = {Testore, Celestino},
title = {Nunez Barreto, joão},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VIII},
pages = {2020--2021},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1952},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/nunez-barreto-joao}
}
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