Gomes to resign, but he repeatedly refused. In a letter to António de Faria, the Portuguese ambassador at the Vatican in 1962, Salazar called Gomes "a sick person and the greatest evil was having made him a bishop". Gomes was still refused entry to Portugal when his mother died, forcing him to not attend the service. His exile abroad would last until the new Council President Marcello Caetano allowed his return in 1969. Return from Exile In the last years of Salazar's regime, Gomes kept a low profile, but he remained a reference for the Catholic wing of the Democratic Opposition, to which he was widely sympathetic. In the aftermath of the 25 de Abril revolution which overthrew the fascist regime in 1974, he warned against the dangers of "philosophical materialism" and "money materialism". He retired as Bishop of Porto in 1982 and died in Ermesinde in 1989. Honours Grand-Cross of the Order of Liberty, Portugal (April 22, 1980) Grand-Cross of the Order of Saint James of the Sword, Portugal (April 20, 2017) See also Humberto Delgado Henrique Galvão References External links Letter of D. António Ferreira Gomes to António de Oliveira Salazar (Portuguese) Homily of bishop of Porto D. Armindo Lopes Coelho during the centennial of D. António Ferreira Gomes birth 1906 births 1989 deaths Portuguese anti-fascists Bishops of Porto People from Penafiel 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Portugal