SA, CHRISTOVÃO da. - Archbishop of Goa, C. da S., or da Lisboa, his native city, made his profession on 9 June 1584 in the monastery of Belém of the Order of the Knights of St. John, died at Goa on 31 March 1622.

On 30 Aug. 1604 he was appointed bishop of Malacca and was consecrated on 21 Nov. of the same year at Belém. In the spring of the following year he departed for his diocese. In 1610 he was transferred to the archdiocese of Goa. On 17 July 1613 he laid the first stone of the new Cathedral at his residence. Paul V, by a brief of 6 Feb. 1616, entrusted him with the delimitation of the dioceses of Cranganore and Cochin.

S. opposed the method of evangelization inaugurated by the Jesuit De Nobili (v.) and in Feb. 1619 convoked a new conference at Goa to examine the question, sending its proceedings to Rome. He died at Goa before the Roman decision arrived.

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BIBL.: M. Müllbauer, Geschichte der katholischen Mission in Ostindien, Freiburg im Br. 1852, p. 464; F. de Améida, Historia da Igreja em Portugal, III, III, Coimbra 1915, pp. 1016-20.

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