About Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos
Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos (18 September 1837 – 28 November 1880) was a Portuguese Roman Catholic Archbishop of Goa. He was born September 18, 1837, in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, a son of Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos Esmeraldo Rolim de Moura and wife Augusta Correia Vasques Salvago de Brito de Olival. On March 6, 1871, he was appointed coadjutor Bishop of Funchal, a diocese in Portugal, and on May 7, 1871, he was ordained as such. On October 27, 1872, he succeeded as Bishop of Funchal, after the death of the previous bishop, Patrício Xavier de Moura. He served as Archbishop of Goa for 6 years, from July 23, 1874, to his death on November 28, 1880. In 1882, his first-born brother published his works, which he preceded by a biographical notice (it was this work that gave him entry to the Royal Academy of Sciences of Lisbon). Catholic Hierarchy: Aires de Ornelas de Vasconcelos.
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