Sebastião Soares de Resende, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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catholic priest, first bishop of Beira
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Place of Birth: Milheirós de Poiares, Aveiro District, Portugal
About Sebastião Soares de Resende
- Sebastião Soares de Resende (1906 - 1967) was a Portuguese Catholic bishop in Africa at the head of the diocese of Beira in Mozambique.
- He was the most liberal of the first generation of bishops after the 1940 Concordat.
- He is famous for having openly criticised, in the name of the social doctrine of the church, both forced labour and forced cultivation in Mozambique.
- In the 1960s he leaned towards the idea that Mozambique should become independent.
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