Governor of Macau

Governor of Macau Governador de Macau 澳門總督
Standard of the Governor
Style	His/Her Excellency
Residence	Government House, Macau
Nominator	Prime Minister of Portugal
Appointer	Monarch of Portugal (1623–1910) President of Portugal (1910–1999)
Inaugural holder	Francisco Mascarenhas
Formation	7 July 1623
Final holder	Vasco Joaquim Rocha Vieira
Abolished	20 December 1999

The Governor of Macau (Portuguese: Governador de Macau; Chinese: 澳門總督) was a Portuguese colonial official who headed the colony of Macau, before 1623 called Captain-major (Portuguese: Capitão-mor). The post was replaced on 20 December 1999 upon the transfer of the sovereignty of Macau to the People's Republic of China by the office of the Chief Executive of Macau.

Powers of the Governor of Macau

The Governor of Macau was responsible for the internal and local control of the colony. External relations and military needs were dealt by the Portuguese government in Lisbon.

List of Captains-Major and Governors of Macau (1557–1999)

The date refer to the date of appointment.

Captains-Major

Captains-Major	Tenure
Francisco Martins	1557–1558
Leonel de Sousa	1558–1559
Rui Barreto	1559–1560
Manuel de Mendonça	1560–1561
Fernão de Sousa	1561–1562
Pêro Barreto Rolim	1562–1563
Diogo Pereira	1563–1565
João Pedro Pereira	1565–1566
Simão de Mendonça (1st time)	1566–1567
Tristão Vaz da Veiga (1st time)	1567–1568
António de Sousa	1568–1569
Manuel Travassos	1569–1571
Tristão Vaz da Veiga (2nd time)	1571–1572
João de Almeida (1st time)	1572–1573
António de Vilhena	1573–1574
Simão de Mendonça (2nd time)	1574–1575
Vasco Pereira	1575–1576
Domingos Monteiro (1st time)	1576–1579
Leonel de Brito	1579–1580
Miguel da Gama	1580–1581
Inácio de Lima	1581–1582
João de Almeida (2nd time)	1582–1583
Aires Gonçalves de Miranda	1583–1585
Francisco Pais	1585–1586
Domingos Monteiro (2nd time)	1586–1587
Jerónimo Pereira	1587–1589
...	1589
Henrique da Costa	1590–1591
Roque de Melo Pereira	1591–1592
Domingos Monteiro (3rd time)	1592–1593
Gaspar Pinto da Rocha	1593–1594
...	1594
Manuel de Miranda	1595–1596
Rui Mendes de Figueiredo	1596–1597
...	1597
Nuno de Mendonça	1598–1599
Paulo de Portugal	1599–1603
Gonçalo Rodrigues de Sousa	1603–1604
João Caiado de Gamboa	1604–1605
Diogo de Vasconcelos de Meneses	1605–1607
André Pessoa	1607–1609
...	1609
Pedro Martim Gaio	1609–1611
Miguel de Sousa Pimentel	1611–1612
João Serrão da Cunha	1612–1614
Martim da Cunha	1614–1616
Francisco Lopes Carrasco	1616–1617
Lopo Sarmento de Carvalho (1st time)	1617–1618
António de Oliveira de Morais	1618–1619
Jerónimo de Macedo de Carvalho	1619–1621
Lopo Sarmento de Carvalho (2nd time)	1621–1623

Governors

№	Governors	Tenure		Days
		Took office	Left office
1	Francisco Mascarenhas	7 July 1623	19 July 1626
2	Filipe Lobo and Jerónimo da Silveira (Co-serving)	19 July 1626	1 December 1631
3	Manuel da Câmara de Noronha	1 December 1631	August 1636	~
4	Domingos da Câmara de Noronha	August 1636	August 1638	~
5	Sebastião Lobo da Silveira	August 1638	August 1645	~
6	Luís de Carvalho e Sousa	August 1645	August 1647	~
7	João Pereira	August 1647	August 1650	~
8	João de Sousa Pereira	August 1650	August 1654	~
9	Manuel Tavares Bocarro	August 1654	22 July 1664	~
10	Manuel Borges da Silva	22 July 1664	31 August 1667
11	Álvaro da Silva	31 August 1667	20 July 1670
12	Manuel Borges da Silva	20 July 1670	20 July 1672
13	António Barbosa Lobo	20 July 1672	10 December 1678
14	António de Castro Sande	10 December 1678	10 December 1679
15	Luís de Melo Sampaio	10 December 1679	10 December 1682
16	Belchior do Amaral de Meneses	10 December 1682	5 July 1685
17	António de Mesquita Pimentel	5 July 1685	31 July 1688
18	André Coelho Vieira	31 July 1688	21 July 1691
19	Francisco da Costa	21 July 1691	23 November 1693
20	António da Silva e Melo	23 November 1693	21 July 1694
21	Gil Vaz Lobo Freire	21 July 1694	17 August 1697
22	Cosme Rodrigues de Carvalho e Sousa	17 August 1697	28 September 1697
—	Municipal Council of Macau	28 September 1697	9 August 1698
23	Pedro Vaz de Sequeira	9 August 1698	5 August 1700
24	Diogo de Melo Sampaio	5 August 1700	22 July 1702
25	Pedro Vaz de Sequeira	22 July 1702	15 August 1703
26	José da Gama Machado	15 August 1703	5 August 1706
27	Diogo do Pinho Teixeira	5 August 1706	28 July 1710
28	Francisco de Melo e Castro	28 July 1710	11 June 1711
29	António de Sequeira de Noronha	11 June 1711	18 July 1714
30	Francisco de Alarcão Sotto-Maior	18 July 1714	30 May 1718
31	António de Albuquerque Coelho	30 May 1718	9 September 1719
32	António da Silva Telo e Meneses	9 September 1719	19 August 1722
33	Cristóvão de Severim Manuel	19 August 1722	6 September 1724
34	António Carneiro de Alcáçova	6 September 1724	6 September 1727
35	António Moniz Barreto	6 September 1727	18 August 1732
36	António de Amaral Meneses	18 August 1732	15 January 1735
37	João do Casal	15 January 1735	4 August 1735
38	Cosme Damião Pinto Pereira	4 August 1735	25 August 1738
39	Diogo Pereira	25 August 1738	25 August 1743
40	António de Mendonça Corte-Real	25 August 1743	30 August 1747
41	José Plácido de Matos Saraiva	30 August 1747	2 August 1749
42	Diogo Fernandes Salema e Saldanha	2 August 1749	29 July 1752
43	Rodrigo de Castro	29 July 1752	14 July 1755
44	Francisco António Pereira Coutinho	14 July 1755	1 July 1758
45	Diogo Pereira de Castro	1 July 1758	4 July 1761
46	António de Mendonça Corte-Real	4 July 1761	14 July 1764
47	José Plácido de Matos Saraiva	14 July 1764	19 August 1767
48	Diogo Fernandes Salema e Saldanha	19 August 1767	29 July 1770
49	Rodrigo de Castro	29 July 1770	26 July 1771
50	Diogo Fernandes Salema e Saldanha	26 July 1771	27 January 1778
51	Alexandre da Silva Pedrosa Guimarães	27 January 1778	1 August 1778
52	José Vicente da Silveira Meneses	1 August 1778	5 January 1780
53	António José da Costa	5 January 1780	28 August 1781
54	Francisco de Castro	28 August 1781	18 August 1783
55	Bernardo Aleixo de Lemos e Faria	18 August 1783	21 July 1788
56	Francisco Xavier de Mendonça Corte-Real	21 July 1788	18 July 1789
57	Lázaro da Silva Ferreira and Manuel António Costa Ferreira (Co-serving)	18 July 1789	29 July 1790
58	Vasco Luís Carneiro de Sousa e Faro	29 July 1790	27 July 1793
59	José Manuel Pinto	27 July 1793	8 August 1797
60	Cristóvão Pereira de Castro	8 August 1797	8 August 1800
61	José Manuel Pinto	8 August 1800	8 August 1803
62	Caetano de Sousa Pereira	8 August 1803	8 August 1806
63	Bernardo Aleixo de Lemos e Faria	8 August 1806	26 December 1808
64	Lucas José de Alvarenga	26 December 1808	19 July 1810
65	Bernardo Aleixo de Lemos e Faria	19 July 1810	19 July 1814
66	Lucas José de Alvarenga	19 July 1814	19 July 1817
67	José Osório de Castro de Albuquerque	19 July 1817	19 August 1822
68	Major Paulino da Silva Barbosa	19 August 1822	23 September 1823
—	Government Council	23 September 1823	28 July 1825
69	Joaquim Mourão Garcez Palha	28 July 1825	15 November 1827
—	Government Council	15 November 1827	7 July 1830
70	João Cabral de Estefique	7 July 1830	3 July 1833
71	Bernardo José de Sousa Soares Andrea	3 July 1833	22 February 1837
72	Adrião Acácio da Silveira Pinto	22 February 1837	3 October 1843
73	José Gregório Pegado	3 October 1843	21 April 1846
74	João Maria Ferreira do Amaral	21 April 1846	22 August 1849
—	Government Council	22 August 1849	30 May 1850
75	Pedro Alexandrino da Cunha	30 May 1850	7 July 1850
—	Government Council	7 July 1850	3 February 1851
76	Francisco António Gonçalves Cardoso	3 February 1851	19 November 1851
77	Isidoro Francisco Guimarães	19 November 1851	22 June 1863
78	José Rodrigues Coelho do Amaral	22 June 1863	26 October 1866
79	José Maria da Ponte e Horta	26 October 1866	3 August 1868
80	António Sérgio de Sousa	3 August 1868	23 March 1872
81	Januário Correia de Almeida	23 March 1872	7 December 1874
82	José Maria Lobo de Ávila	7 December 1874	31 December 1876
83	Carlos Eugénio Correia da Silva	31 December 1876	28 November 1879
84	Joaquim José da Graça	28 November 1879	23 April 1883
85	Tomás de Sousa Rosa	23 April 1883	7 August 1886
86	Firmino José da Costa	7 August 1886	5 February 1889
87	Francisco Teixeira da Silva	5 February 1889	16 October 1890
88	Custódio Miguel de Borja	16 October 1890	24 March 1894
89	José Maria de Sousa Horta e Costa (1st time)	24 March 1894	12 May 1897
90	Eduardo Augusto Rodrigues Galhardo	12 May 1897	12 August 1900
(89)	José Maria de Sousa Horta e Costa (2nd time)	12 August 1900	17 December 1902
91	Arnaldo de Novais Guedes Rebelo	17 December 1902	10 December 1903
—	Government Council	10 December 1903	5 April 1904
92	Martinho Pinto de Queirós Montenegro	5 April 1904	6 April 1907
93	Pedro de Azevedo Coutinho	6 April 1907	18 August 1908
94	José Augusto Alves Roçadas	18 August 1908	22 September 1909
95	Eduardo Augusto Marques	22 September 1909	17 December 1910
96	pt	17 December 1910	14 July 1912
97	Aníbal Augusto Sanches de Miranda	14 July 1912	10 June 1914
98	José Carlos da Maia	10 June 1914	5 September 1916
99	Manuel Ferreira da Rocha and Agostinho Vieira de Matos (Co-serving)	5 September 1916	12 October 1918
100	Artur Tamagnini de Sousa Barbosa	12 October 1918	23 August 1919
101	Henrique Monteiro Correia da Silva	23 August 1919	5 January 1923
102	Rodrigo José Rodrigues	5 January 1923	18 October 1925
103	Manuel Firmino de Almeida Maia Magalhães	18 October 1925	8 December 1926
104	Artur Tamagnini de Sousa Barbosa	8 December 1926	30 March 1931
105	Joaquim Anselmo de Mata Oliveira	30 March 1931	21 June 1932
106	António José Bernardes de Miranda	21 June 1932	11 April 1937
107	Artur Tamagnini de Sousa Barbosa	11 April 1937	29 October 1940
108	Gabriel Maurício Teixeira	29 October 1940	1 September 1947
109	Albano Rodrigues de Oliveira	1 September 1947	23 November 1951
110	Joaquim Marques Esparteiro	23 November 1951	8 March 1957
111	Pedro Correia de Barros	8 March 1957	18 September 1959
112	Jaime Silvério Marques	18 September 1959	17 April 1962
113	António Lopes dos Santos	17 April 1962	25 November 1966
114	José Manuel de Sousa e Faro Nobre de Carvalho	25 November 1966	19 November 1974
115	José Eduardo Martinho Garcia Leandro	19 November 1974	28 November 1979
116	Nuno Viriato Tavares de Melo Egídio	28 November 1979	16 June 1981
117	Vasco de Almeida e Costa	16 June 1981	15 May 1986
118	Joaquim Pinto Correia	15 May 1986	9 July 1987
119	Carlos Montez Melancia	9 July 1987	23 April 1991
120	Vasco Joaquim Rocha Vieira	23 April 1991	20 December 1999

Chief Executives

Main article: Chief Executive of Macau

See also

• Portuguese Macau