Roman Catholic Cardinal. A native of Lousado, Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira entered seminary in Braga, later pursuing his studies at the University of Coimbra. Ordained priest in April 1911, he started collaborating for the journal "A Palavra" and by the following year, founded the "O Imparcial" newspaper in order to oppose anti-clericalism at the named University of Coimbra, of which he formed part of its teaching staff between 1911 and 1928, occupying several chairs. Appointed suffragan of of the patriarchate of Lisbon with the personal title of archbishop of the titular see of Mitilene in March 1928, Cerejeira received his episcopal consecration on the following June 17 in Coimbra. Subsequent to the death of Cardinal António Mendes Bello, he was promoted as the fourteenth patriarch of Lisbon on November 18, 1929. A month later, Pope Pius XI created him cardinal priest with the title of Ss. Marcellino e Pietro, becoming thus the youngest person to be elevated to the Sacred College of Cardinals since Rafael Merry del Val, remaining such to this day. During his lengthy episcopate, Cerejiera founded the Catholic University of Portugal, inaugurated in 1967, an the seminary of Olivais. A devoted supporter of the "Estado Novo", the Second Republic of Portugal, developed by his longtime friend António de Oliveira Salazar, he was particularly criticized for not speaking in favor of the bishop of Porto, António Ferreira Gomes, after being sent into exile by the named dictator Oliveira Salazar after writing to him a letter of criticism. Appointed as the first ordinary of the Military Ordinariate of Portugal in 1966, he retired from office in 1971. Spending his last years in Lisbon at a home for elderly, he passed away there in 1977. In his will, dated 1950, he requested to be buried at the seminary of Olivares but the patriarchate did not fulfill his wish and had him laid to rest at the monastery of São Vicente de Fora alongside his predecessors. By the time of his death, he was the last surviving cardinal created by Pope Pius XI.