Roman Catholic Cardinal. Born in the Madeiran archipelago, Teodosio Clemente de Gouveia entered seminary in Funchal by following the latter's confiscation by revolutionaries in 1910, he was taken along with the other resident studies to house of studies of the Claretian Fathers in Paris, moving again to Dax following the German invasion of France. Pursuing his studies at the Seminary of Saint-Sulpice in Paris and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, he was ordained priest there in April 1919. Back in Madeira, he served as secretary of the ecclesiastical chamber of the diocese of Funchal and member of the teaching staff of the local seminary. Director of the "Boletim Diocesano da Madeira", in 1929 he was named vice-rector of the Pontifical Portuguese College in Rome and rector of the church of Sant'Antonio dei Portughesi in 1931. Appointed prelate of Mozambique in 1936, he received his episcopal consecration with the titular see of Leuce on July 5 of that year. Decorated with the grand cross of the "Ordem da Cristo" in 1939, he was promoted to the newly erected see of Lourenço Marques, present day Maputo on January 18, 1941. Pope Pius XII created him cardinal priest with the title of San Pietro in Vincoli in the consistory of February 18, 1946, becoming thus he first cardinal from Mozambique. Passing away of leukemia at the archiepiscopal palace, in accordance with his wishes he was laid to rest in the metropolitan cathedral behind the main altar, in a plain tomb marked only with his episcopal coat of arms.
Roman Catholic Cardinal. Born in the Madeiran archipelago, Teodosio Clemente de Gouveia entered seminary in Funchal by following the latter's confiscation by revolutionaries in 1910, he was taken along with the other resident studies to house of studies of the Claretian Fathers in Paris, moving again to Dax following the German invasion of France. Pursuing his studies at the Seminary of Saint-Sulpice in Paris and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, he was ordained priest there in April 1919. Back in Madeira, he served as secretary of the ecclesiastical chamber of the diocese of Funchal and member of the teaching staff of the local seminary. Director of the "Boletim Diocesano da Madeira", in 1929 he was named vice-rector of the Pontifical Portuguese College in Rome and rector of the church of Sant'Antonio dei Portughesi in 1931. Appointed prelate of Mozambique in 1936, he received his episcopal consecration with the titular see of Leuce on July 5 of that year. Decorated with the grand cross of the "Ordem da Cristo" in 1939, he was promoted to the newly erected see of Lourenço Marques, present day Maputo on January 18, 1941. Pope Pius XII created him cardinal priest with the title of San Pietro in Vincoli in the consistory of February 18, 1946, becoming thus he first cardinal from Mozambique. Passing away of leukemia at the archiepiscopal palace, in accordance with his wishes he was laid to rest in the metropolitan cathedral behind the main altar, in a plain tomb marked only with his episcopal coat of arms.
Bio by: Eman Bonnici
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