The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Patriarchate of Lisbon is one of the few western patriarchates in the Roman Catholic Church, which titles are honorary and carry no actual authority except for that of the Patriarch of Rome, the Pope.

The see and its history

Precursors in the see

Bishops of Olissipo

Saint Manços (36)
Filipe Filoteu (92)
Petrus (I) (166)
Petrus (II) (213)
Jorgius (260)
Petrus (III) (297)
Saint Gens
Januarius (300) Historical

Gilbert of Hastings (1147-1163)
Álvaro (1164-1184)
Soeiro (I) (1185-1210)
Soeiro (II) Viegas (1210-1232)
Vincente (1233)
Paio Pais (1234)
João (I) Falberto (1234)
Estêvão (I) Gomes (1234-1237)
João (II) (1239-1241)
Ricardo Guilherme (1241)
Airas Vasques (1241-1258)
Mateus(1258-1282)
Estêvão (II) Anes de Vasconcelos (1282-1290)
Domingos Anes Jardo (1290-1293)
João (III) Martins de Soalhães (1294-1313)
Friar Estevão (III) (1313-1322)
Gonçalo Pereira (1322-1326)
João(IV) Afonso de Brito (1326-1342)
Vasco Martins (1342-1344)
Étienne (IV) de la Garde (1344-1348)
Thibaud de Castillon (1348-1356)
Reginald de Maubernard (1356-1358)
Lourenço Rodrigues (1359-1364)
Pedro Gomes Barroso (1364-1369)
Fernando Álvares (1369-1371)
Vasco (1371)
Agapito Colonna (1371-1378)
Jean (V) de Agoult (1379), nominee by the Roman Pope; therefore bishop of Aix-en-Provence
Martinho de Zamora(1379-1383), nominee by the antipope in Avignon; murdered by the people during the 1383-1385 Crisis
João (VI) Guterres (1381-1382), nominee by the Roman Pope, therefore, bishop of Dax, Gascony
João (VII) Anes (c. 1383-1394) Archbishops of Lisbon

Tomás de Almeida (1716-1754)
José Manuel da Câmara (1754-1758)
Francisco Saldanha (1758-1776)
Fernando de Sousa e Silva (1779-1786)
José Francisco Miguel António de Mendonça (1786-1818)
Carlos da Cunha e Menezes (1819-1825)
Patrício da Silva (1826-1840)
Francisco de São Luiz Saraiva (1840-1845)
Guilherme Henriques de Carvalho (1845-1857)
Manuel Bento Cardinal Rodrigues da Silva (1858-1869)
Inácio do Nascimento Cardinal Morais Cardoso (1871-1883)
José Sebastião Cardinal d'Almeida Neto (1883-1907)
António Mendes Bello (1907-1929)
Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira (1929-1971)
António Ribeiro (1971-1998)
José da Cruz Policarpo (1998-Present)