Agostinho Barbosa
Honorific-prefixMost Reverend
TitleBishop of Ugento
ChurchCatholic Church
DioceseDiocese of Ugento
Term1648–1649
PredecessorGirolamo Martini
SuccessorAndreas Lanfranchi
Ordination19 September 1615
Consecration5 April 1649
Consecrated byAlfonso de la Cueva, 1st Marquis of Bedmar
Birth dateSeptember 17, 1590
Birth placeAldão, Guimarães, Portugal
Death date19 November 1649 (aged 60)
Death placeUgento, Italy
Alma materUniversity of Coimbra

Agostinho Barbosa (Agostino, Augustinus) (17 September 1590, at Aldão, Guimarães, Portugal – 19 Nov. 1649, in Ugento, Italy) was a prolific Portuguese writer on canon law. His work included dictionary-type surveys of the legal elements.[1][2]

Life

Having studied canon law in Portugal, he went to Rome. Being without the means to purchase books, he memorized their contents in libraries. About 1632 he went to Madrid, where he applied himself to writing and fulfilled various duties confided to him until 1648. He was confirmed Bishop of Ugento in Rome on 22 March 1649 and ordained on 5 Apr. 1649.[3][4]

Works

His works fill at least 30 volumes.[5] They show intimate acquaintance with authors, sources, and controversial questions such as the following:

  • Pastoralis Sollicitudinis, sive de Officio et Potestate Episcopi Tripartita Descriptio (Rome, 1621; Lyons, 1629; in folio, 1641, 1650, etc.).
  • Variae Juris Tractationes, a similar work relating to parish priests was published in Rome in 1632, Lyons, 1634, Geneva, 1662, Venice, 1705, in quarto; in folio, Lyons, 1631 and 1644, Strasburg, 1652.
  • Juris Ecclesiastici Universi Libri III (Lyons, 1633, 1645, 1718).

All the canonical works of Barbosa were published at Lyons, 1657–75, in 19 vols. in quarto, 16 vols. in folio, and again, 1698–1716, 20 vols. in quarto, 18 vols. in folio.

References

  • Hurter in Kirchenlexikon, s. v.
  • Wernz, Franz Xavier (1898). Jus Decretalium. Vol. I. Rome. p. 408.

Notes

  1. ^ António Manuel Hespanha, Form and content in early modern legal books: Bridging material bibliography with history of legal thought (PDF, p. 20), = Portuguese Journal of Social Science, Volume 6, Issue 1, August 2007, pp. 33-59. Archived August 12, 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Constant van de Wiel, History of Canon Law (1991), p. 160.
  3. ^ https://catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbarbosaa.html Bishop Agostino Barbosa
  4. ^ Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice) (1935). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi. Vol. IV. Münster: Libraria Regensbergiana. p. 351. (in Latin)
  5. ^ Codex Iuris Canonici