List of ambassadors of Portugal to China

The Portuguese ambassador in Beijing is the official representative of the Government in Lisbon to the Government of the People's Republic of China.

Ambassador of Portugal to China
Incumbent José Augusto Duarte since December 5, 2017
Inaugural holder	Fernão Pires de Andrade
Formation	1511

History

• In 1511 Manuel I of Portugal sent Ambassador Fernão Pires de Andrade to China to ask for trading privileges.^[1]
• In 1517 a formal Portuguese embassy got bogged down in Chinese protocol and procrastination, and China expelled the Portuguese in 1522.^[2]
• In 1979 the government of Portugal left the Holy See as last European subject of international law with diplomatic relations with the government in Taipei.^[3]

List of representatives

Diplomatic agrément	Diplomatic accreditation	Ambassador	Observations	Residence	List of heads of state of Portugal	Emperor of China	Term end
May 18, 1727	May 28, 1727	Alexandre Metelo de Sousa e Meneses	Embaixador	Bangkok	Peter III of Portugal	Yongzheng Emperor	July 16, 1727
May 1, 1753		Francisco Xavier Assis Pacheco e Sampaio Melo	Ministro Plenipotenciário	Bangkok	Peter III of Portugal	Qianlong Emperor	June 8, 1753
January 1, 1862		José Maria de Sousa Horta e Costa	Minister Plenipotentiary: resident in Macao, accredited in Japan and Siam. Between 1862 and 1902, diplomatic representatives of Portugal in China combine their functions with those of Governor of Macao and Timorese. (Lista de governadores de Macau [pt])	Bangkok	Luís I of Portugal	Empress Dowager Cixi	March 18, 1902
December 3, 1862		Visconde da Praia Grande de Macau	Legation to China, Japan and Siam.	Bangkok	Luís I of Portugal	Empress Dowager Cixi	April 22, 1863
April 22, 1863		José Rodrigues Coelho do Amaral	Legation to China, Japan and Siam.	Bangkok	Luís I of Portugal	Empress Dowager Cixi	August 14, 1866
October 26, 1866		José Maria da Ponte e Horta	Legation to China, Japan and Siam.	Bangkok	Luís I of Portugal	Empress Dowager Cixi	June 3, 1868
August 3, 1868		António Sérgio de Sousa	Legation to China, Japan and Siam.	Bangkok	Luís I of Portugal	Empress Dowager Cixi	January 27, 1872
February 27, 1872		Visconde de S. Januário	Legation to China, Japan and Siam.	Bangkok	Luís I of Portugal	Empress Dowager Cixi	September 16, 1875
January 1, 1874		Januário Correia de Almeida		Bangkok	Luís I of Portugal	Empress Dowager Cixi
September 16, 1875		José Maria Lobo D'Ávila		Bangkok	Luís I of Portugal	Empress Dowager Cixi	September 27, 1876
September 27, 1876		Visconde de Paço de Arcos		Bangkok	Luís I of Portugal	Empress Dowager Cixi	September 25, 1878
November 27, 1879		Joaquim José da Graça [pt]		Bangkok	Luís I of Portugal	Empress Dowager Cixi	March 8, 1883
May 23, 1883		Tomás de Sousa Rosa		Bangkok	Luís I of Portugal	Empress Dowager Cixi	July 25, 1886
January 26, 1887		Firmino José da Costa		Bangkok	Luís I of Portugal	Empress Dowager Cixi
April 28, 1887		Tomás de Sousa Rosa	Missão Especial	non resident	Luís I of Portugal	Empress Dowager Cixi
November 5, 1887		João José da Silva	Chargé d'affaires	Bangkok	Luís I of Portugal	Empress Dowager Cixi
February 5, 1889		Francisco Teixeira da Silva		Bangkok	Carlos I of Portugal	Empress Dowager Cixi	March 31, 1890
April 2, 1890		Coronel Francisco Augusto Ferreira da Silva	Chargé d'affaires	Bangkok	Carlos I of Portugal	Empress Dowager Cixi	October 28, 1890
October 28, 1890		Custódio Miguel Borja	Chargé d'affaires	Bangkok	Carlos I of Portugal	Empress Dowager Cixi
April 15, 1891		Custódio Miguel Borja		Bangkok	Carlos I of Portugal	Empress Dowager Cixi	December 23, 1893
March 24, 1894		José de Sousa Horta e Costa		Bangkok	Carlos I of Portugal	Empress Dowager Cixi	February 11, 1897
May 12, 1897		Eduardo Augusto Rodrigues Galhardo		Bangkok	Carlos I of Portugal	Empress Dowager Cixi	July 5, 1900
August 13, 1900		José Maria de Sousa Horta e Costa		Bangkok	Carlos I of Portugal	Empress Dowager Cixi	October 10, 1902
January 24, 1902	January 23, 1902	José de Azevedo Castelo Branco [pt]		Bangkok	Carlos I of Portugal	Empress Dowager Cixi	August 10, 1903
October 20, 1903	February 21, 1904	José de Azevedo Castelo Branco [pt]		Bangkok	Carlos I of Portugal	Empress Dowager Cixi	November 19, 1904
November 19, 1904		Gabriel de Almeida Santos	Chargé d'affaires	Bangkok	Carlos I of Portugal	Empress Dowager Cixi
March 2, 1905		Ignácio de Costa Duarte	Chargé d'affaires	Bangkok	Carlos I of Portugal	Empress Dowager Cixi
December 2, 1907		Martinho Teixeira Homem de Brederode	Chargé d'affaires	Bangkok	Carlos I of Portugal	Empress Dowager Cixi	April 25, 1908
December 2, 1907		Gabriel de Almeida Santos	Chargé d'affaires	Bangkok	Carlos I of Portugal	Empress Dowager Cixi	January 1, 2006
April 25, 1908	April 25, 1908	Barão de Sendal	also accredited in Bangkok and Tokyo.	Beijing	Manuel II of Portugal	Puyi	October 7, 1910
September 30, 1911		Henrique O'Connor Martins	Chargé d'affaires	Beijing	Manuel José de Arriaga	Puyi	May 19, 1913

Diplomatic agrément	Diplomatic accreditation	Ambassador	Observations	Residence	List of heads of state of Portugal	List of premiers of China	Term end
January 10, 1913	January 20, 1914	José Batalha de Freitas	*In 1919 the legation was transferred to Bangkok.	Beijing	Manuel José de Arriaga	Xiong Xiling	March 13, 1925
September 25, 1925	October 8, 1925	João António de Bianchi		Beijing	Bernardino Machado	Xu Shiying	March 25, 1929
March 25, 1929	March 31, 1930	Luís Esteves Fernandes	Chargé d'affaires	Nanjing	António de Oliveira Salazar	Tan Yankai	January 6, 1931
January 6, 1931	December 30, 1930	Armando Navarro	*In 1937 the legation was transferred to Shanghai.	Nanjing	António de Oliveira Salazar	Chiang Kai-shek	February 7, 1938
July 11, 1938		João Maria da Silva Lebre e Lima	Ministro Plenipotenciário	Shanghai	António de Oliveira Salazar	H. H. Kung	October 16, 1945
October 11, 1946		João de Barros Ferreira da Fonseca [de]	[4]	Nanjing	António de Oliveira Salazar	Chiang Kai-shek	November 1, 1949
June 11, 1946		Joao Rodrigues Simoes Affra	Chargé d'affaires	Nanjing	António de Oliveira Salazar	Chiang Kai-shek	December 18, 1950
April 19, 1979	April 26, 1979	João de Deus Pereira Bramão Ramos	Encarregado de Negócios	Beijing	António Ramalho Eanes	Hua Guofeng	September 10, 1979
September 10, 1979	September 19, 1979	António Eduardo de carvalho Ressano Garcia	[5]	Beijing	António Ramalho Eanes	Hua Guofeng	July 13, 1982
June 3, 1982	June 8, 1982	António Leal da Costa Lobo		Beijing	António Ramalho Eanes	Zhao Ziyang	June 1, 1985
August 10, 1985	August 19, 1985	Octávio Neto Valério	1961: Mr. Nyerere stated in the National Assembly that recognition accorded to the Portuguese Consul-General, Senhor Octavio Neto Valerio, to be Consul-General for Portugal in Tanganyika had been revoked from October 17.[6]	Beijing	António Ramalho Eanes	Zhao Ziyang	August 31, 1989
September 24, 1989	September 29, 1989	José Manuel Peixoto de Vilas Boas de Vasconcelos Faria		Beijing	Mário Soares	Li Peng	October 30, 1993
October 13, 1993	November 15, 1993	José Manuel Duarte de Jesus	[7]	Beijing	Mário Soares	Li Peng	April 6, 1997
April 6, 1997	April 15, 1997	Pedro Manuel dos Reis Alves Catarino	[8]	Beijing	Jorge Sampaio	Li Peng	September 28, 2002
October 7, 2002		António Nunes de Carvalho Santana Carlos	[9]	Beijing	Jorge Sampaio	Zhu Rongji	October 1, 2006
October 2, 2006		Rui Quartin-Santos	[10]	Beijing	Aníbal Cavaco Silva	Wen Jiabao	May 6, 2010
May 8, 2010	July 30, 2010	José Tadeu da Costa Soares		Beijing	Aníbal Cavaco Silva	Wen Jiabao
April 22, 2013		Jorge Ryder Torres Pereira	10th Portuguese ambassador in Beijing[11]	Beijing	Aníbal Cavaco Silva	Li Keqiang

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