a Dominican, who in 1566, together with Father Luís de Sotomayor, Francisco Foreiro, and others, assisted at the Council of Trent; de Castro, an Augustinian (1589–1609), who consecrated the cathedral, 28 July 1592. Aleixo de Meneses, also an Augustinian, was transferred to Braga from the archiepiscopal see of Goa. He had been appointed bishop to the St. Thomas Christians of the Malabar Coast in Farther India and had forcibly Latinized them with the help of missionaries of the various religious orders. Under him was held the controversial anti-Council of Diamper (1599), for the establishment of the church on the Malabar Coast. He died at Madrid in 1617 in his fifty-eighth year as President of the Council of Castile. Three other bishops of note were Rodrigo da Cunha (1627–35), historian of the church in Portugal and author of a monograph on the Bishops and Archbishops of Braga; Rodrigo de Moura Teles (1704–28), who sponsored the restoration of the cathedral; and Diogo de Sousa, bishop of Porto (1496-1505) and Archbishop of Braga (1505-1532), protector of the arts and sciences, who modernized and revitalized Braga with new constructions in the city and the Sé. The Archbishop of Braga has claimed the title of Primate of the Spains (Portuguese: Primaz das Espanhas) as the oldest diocese on the Iberian Peninsula. Bishops of Braga from 45 to 600 Peter of Rates (45-60) * Basílio (60-95) * Ovidius (95-130) * Policarpo (130-200) * Serfriano (200-230) * Fabião (230-245) * Félix (245-263) * Secundo (263-268) * Caledónio (268-270) * Narciso (270-275) * Paterno I (275-290) * Grato (290-299) * Salomão (299-300) * Sinágrio (300-326) * Lenóncio (326-328) * Apolónio (328-366) * Idácio I (366-381) * Lampádio (381-400) * Paterno II (400-405), the first attested bishop Profuturo I (405-410) * Pancraciano (410-417) * Balcónio (417-456) Valério (456-494) * Idácio II (494-518) * Apolinário (518-524) * Castino (524-525)* Valério (525-527) * Ausberto (527-537) * Julião I (537-538) * Profuturo II (538-550) Eleutério (550-561) * Lucrécio (561-562) Martin of Braga, Apostle of the Suebi (562-579) Pantardo (580-589) Benigno (589-612) * from 612 to 1108 Tolobeu (612-633) * Julião II (633-653) Potâmio (653-656) Fructuosus of Braga (656-660) Manucino (660-661) * Pancrácio (661-675) * Leodegísio Julião or Leodecísio Julião (675-678) Liúva (678-681) Quirico (681-687) * Faustino (688-693) Félix (693-734?) Bishop Felix was the last bishop residing in Braga, which was totally destroyed in 716, until the restoration of the bishopric in 1070.