page_title: João Parvi
section_title: Ecclesiastical career
hierarchical_section_title: João Parvi / Biography / Ecclesiastical career
caption_attribution_description: English: Street in Ribera Grande, Santo Antão, Cape Verde This image was copied from wikipedia:pt. The original description was: Vista de uma rua da Ribeira Grande. Julho de 1997. OTIMarte
context_page_description: João Parvi, also known as D. João de Évora was a French-Portuguese prelate.
context_section_description: He was member at the prestige See of Évora which was used as an archdeacon and a canon magistrate.
  As contemporary of Martin of Portugal who had been sent to the Papal States in Rome for the creation of Dioceses of Anga, Cape Verde, São Tomė and Goa, in which he had influence in its school.
  On 23 September 1538, he became the second Bishop of Cape Verde.  He succeeded Brás Neto who was in Lisbon and did not fully became an archbishop.
  Also on 23 September 1538, he headed to the Roman Curia.  However he went to reside for the bishop's seat, heremained in his estate in Évora up to 1545.  In September, he made a will, he left his heir to his nephew Reginaldo Parvi, on that document, he was going to the island of Santiago in Cape Verde, probably at the end of 1545, where he became the first bishop resident.
caption: Ribeira Grande on the island of Santo Antão
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