A diocese de Macau e a criação de Prefeituras e Vicariatos na Província de Cantão.
This is a diplomatic correspondence collection comprising three interrelated official notes dated 15–16 February 1925, originating from the Portuguese Legation to the Holy See in Rome. The documents address the Holy See’s establishment of an Apostolic Prefecture in Guangdong Province (referred to in...
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| Language: | French |
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1925
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1857 Treaty between Holy See and Portugal
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1886 Convention between Holy See and Portugal
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Acta Apostolicae Sedis
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Apostolic Letter of 31 January 1924
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Apostolic Prefecture of Guangdong
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Bishop of Macau
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Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
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Ecclesiastical jurisdiction in Guangdong
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Holy See–Portugal relations
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Macao Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction
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Maryknoll Fathers
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Portuguese Legation to the Holy See
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Sino-Vatican ecclesiastical administration
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| Online Access: | https://macau-legacy.usj.edu.mo/docs/BPPPQXID/viewer_BPPPQXID.html |
| Summary: | This is a diplomatic correspondence collection comprising three interrelated official notes dated 15–16 February 1925, originating from the Portuguese Legation to the Holy See in Rome. The documents address the Holy See’s establishment of an Apostolic Prefecture in Guangdong Province (referred to interchangeably as Canton Province), decreed by Apostolic Letter of 31 January 1924 and published in the *Acta Apostolicae Sedis* on 1 April 1924, and entrusted to the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America (Maryknoll Fathers). Key figures include J. A. de Castro (signatory of the principal note), F. a) A. (author of the dispatch to the Portuguese Minister for Foreign Affairs), and Cardinal Pietro Gasparri, Secretary of State to the Holy See. The correspondence centres on Portugal’s assertion that the Holy See’s ecclesiastical reorganisation in Guangdong does not abrogate the Bishop of Macau’s pastoral jurisdiction over specified territories, as guaranteed under Article VI of the 1857 Treaty between the Holy See and the Kingdom of Portugal and reaffirmed by Article XI of the 1886 Convention. The documents further identify the Prefecture’s territorial composition—Sanwui (Xinhui), Chak-hai (Jianghai), and Sanning (Sanxing)—and argue for its de facto subordination to Macau on religious, political, and economic grounds. The material constitutes primary evidence of early twentieth-century Portuguese ecclesiastical diplomacy, colonial ecclesiastical jurisdiction, and Holy See–state relations in East Asia. Maço 1, Doc. 35 |
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