PEDRO V, king of PORTUGAL. — Born on 16 Sept. 1837 in Lisbon, died there on 11 Nov. 1861. At the death of his mother Maria II in 1853, he was still a minor and ascended the throne in 1855.
During his reign, the government of the country remained in the hands of anticlerical elements, so that relations with the Church were strained, although in 1857 the so-called Portuguese schism of the Indies was, in a certain sense, resolved. Indeed, on 21 Feb. of that year, Pius IX and Pedro V, having resolved to draw up a treaty establishing the articles of concord for the continuation of the exercise of the rights of patronage of the Portuguese crown in India and China, concluded a concordat negotiated by Cardinal Di Pietro, apostolic nuncio in Portugal, and by the minister Rodrigo da Fonseca Magalhães. This concordat granted the exercise of the right of patronage of the Portuguese crown over the metropolitan Church of Goa in India and over the episcopal Church of Macao in China. Moreover, the Holy See consented to grant canonical institution to prelates nominated and presented by the sovereign and to subject once more to the jurisdiction of the metropolitan Church of Goa those dioceses already subjected to it, as “the circumscription of the suffragan dioceses of India” was gradually concluded and approved, dioceses which were then in fact subject to vicars apostolic.