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Dom Manuel Jos Macrio do Nascimento Clemente , officially referred to as Manuel III, CardinalPatriarch of Lisbon is currently the Patriarch of Lisbon. He was appointed by Pope Francis onMay 2013, replacing Jos Policarpo. He was installed onJuly 2013 at the Patriarchal Cathedral of St. Mary Major.

Manuel was born onJuly 1948 at Torres Vedras, Portugal. He joined the Major Seminary of Christ the King of the Groves in 1973 and graduated at the University of Lisbon a year later with the Degree in History. He also received a Degree of Theology in 1979 at the Catholic University of Portugal where he taught Church History from 1975. He also received a Doctorate in Historical Theology with his thesis named In the apostolic origins of contemporary Portugal. The Catholic Society

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