PEDRO V, king of PORTUGAL. — B. 16 Sept. 1837 in Lisbon, d. there 11 Nov. 1861. At the death of his mother Maria II, in 1853, he was still under age and ascended the throne in 1855.
During his reign, the government of the country remained in the hands of anticlerical elements, and relations with the Church were therefore strained, although in 1857 the Portuguese schism in the Indies was in a certain sense resolved. Indeed, on 21 Feb. of that year Pius IX and Pedro V,
“having resolved to make a treaty establishing the articles of agreement for the continuation of the exercise of the rights of patronage of the Portuguese crown in India and China,” concluded a concordat negotiated by Card. Di Pietro, apostolic nuncio in Portugal, and 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. Furthermore, the Holy See agreed to confer canonical institution upon the prelates nominated and presented by the sovereign and to subject once again to the jurisdiction of the metropolitan Church of Goa the dioceses formerly subject to it, as “the delimitation of the suffragan dioceses of India” should gradually be concluded and approved; these dioceses were then in fact subject to apostolic vicars.