Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Diego da Conceição de Araújo | |
Titular Archbishop of Calama Auxiliary Bishop of Goa | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Term: | 1595–1597 |
Predecessor: | Jeronimo Pereyra |
Successor: | Jerónimo de Carrerio |
Consecration: | 1596 |
Consecrated By: | Alexeu de Jesu de Meneses |
Birth Date: | 1549 |
Birth Place: | Vila Viçosa |
Death Date: | 1597 |
Diego da Conceição de Araújo, O.E.S.A. (1549–1597) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Goa (1595–1597).[1]
João da Rocha was born in Vila Viçosa in 1549 and ordained a priest in the Order of Saint Augustine.[2] On 13 Nov 1595, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Clement VIII as Titular Archbishop of Calama.In 1596, he was consecrated bishop by Alexeu de Jesu de Meneses, Archbishop of Goa.He served as auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese until his death in 1597.