Clergy of the Society of Jesus who worked mostly in Japan. He was born in Bungo, around 1572 and died in Macau, on 21 March 1636. He entered the Society in Macau, late March 1604. He left for Japan in 1609 and he is mentioned in the Jesuit roster of the residence of Nagasaki, in 1613. He returned to Macau in November 1614. He professed his temporal coadjutor vows at an unknown date.

Bibliography:

COSTA, João Paulo Oliveira e, O Cristianismo no Japão e o Episcopado de D. Luís de Cerqueira, dissertação de doutoramento em História apresentada à Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, 1998 (texto fotocopiado).

Author: Helena Rodrigues
Translated by: Dominique Faria