Jorge Ferreira da Costa Ortiga

Who is Jorge Ferreira da Costa Ortiga?

Dom Jorge Ferreira da Costa Ortiga is a Portuguese Catholic archbishop and the Primate of All Portugal.

He attended the seminary of the Archdiocese of Braga between 1955 and 1967. He was ordained a priest on 9 July 1967. He was Vicar Cooperator in the parish of St. Victor, in Braga, between 1967 and 1968.

He graduated from the Faculty of Ecclesiastical History at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome on 10 October 1970, later attending the curriculum for the doctoral degree. While in Rome, 1 October 1970 to May 1971, did a course in Grottaferrata priestly spirituality guided by the Institute Mystice Corporis.

In Braga, he worked in the Secretariat of Bishops, where he remained from June 1971 to September 1973 and during this time collaborating in the pastoral of the Third Church in Braga. On 1 October 1973 was appointed Rector of the Church Gathered and Chaplain of the Brotherhood of Our Lady of Sorrows and St Anne, erect in the same church. On November 24, 1981, was appointed Episcopal Vicar for Clergy, an office which was reconfirmed on 1 October 1985. On 6 March 1985 the Chapter was named Canon of the Cathedral of Braga.