Baltasar Barreira (Sacavém, 1538 - June 4, 1612) was a Portuguese Jesuit. Biography modifies wikitesto
Member of the Society of Jesus, was the first missionary to reach Angola (1879), where in about ten years he was able to baptize about 20,000 people; from 1605 he took care of the evangelization of Sierra Leone, where he succeeded in converting the indigenous sovereign and, therefore, his subjects.
She was opposed to the slave trade; he unnecessarily sought to establish a seminary in Africa for the formation of indigenous clergy. He returned home in 1609.
He was the Knight of the Order of Christ. Bibliografiamodifica wikitesto
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