José dos Santos Garcia

José dos Santos Garcia SMP ( born April 16, 1913 in Aldeia do Souto in Covilha, Portugal, † December 11, 2010 in Covilhã ) was a Roman Catholic religious priest and bishop of Porto Amélia.

Life

José dos Santos Garcia joined the Portuguese Missionary Society of Boa Nova ( Missionários dà " Boa Nova " SMP ) and received on 25 July 1938, the ordination. He was professor of mathematics, mayor and chancellor of the seminary of Cernache Bonjardim. In 1955 he went as a missionary in the then Portuguese colony of Mozambique. He built a church, boarding schools and a health center in the diocese of Nampula.

On April 5, 1957, he was named by Pope Pius XII. the first bishop of the diocese, founded in Nampula out on April 5, 1957 Diocese of Porto Amélia ( from 1976 Diocese of Pemba ) in Mozambique. He received his episcopal consecration on 16 June 1957, the Archbishop of Lourenço Marques ( Maputo Archdiocese from 1976 ) Teodósio Clemente de Gouveia, Cardinal; Co-consecrators were the then Bishop of Nampula Manuel de Medeiros Guerreiro and the Bishop of Quelimane Francisco Nunes Teixeira.

José dos Santos Garcia was a Council Father of the second, third and fourth sessions of the Second Vatican Council.

1975, the year of independence of Mozambique from Portugal, was his resignation by Pope Paul VI. granted. Dos Santos Garcia returned, like most Portuguese back to Portugal and was honored in 2006 with the Golden Medal of the city of Covilhã.