Patriarchate Today
There are over two million people living in 282 parishes within the see, 85% of whom are nominally Catholic. The suffragan dioceses of the see are Angra, Funchal, Guarda, Leiria-Fátima, Portalegre-Castelo Branco, Santarém, and Setúbal. The former diocese of Silves, comprising the Algarve, and currently, was only transferred from the Spanish province of Sevilla in 1393.
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“It is not their brotherly love but the impotence of their brotherly love that keeps the Christians of today from—burning us.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)