Sebastião Soares de Resende [SEP] position held
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.
Biography.
Sebastião Soares de Resende was born
177–180
- C. A. Moreira Azevedo, “Perfil biográfico de D. Sebastião Soares de Resende”, "Lusitania Sacra" (Lisbon), 2a série, tomo 6, 1994
- Eric Morier-Genoud "Soares de Resende, Sebastião ", "Dictionary of African Biography" (Oxford: OUP, 2011)
- Eric Morier-Genoud, "The Catholic Church, religious orders and the making of politics in colonial Mozambique: The case of the diocese of Beira 1940-1974", Ph.D. dissertation,