Rui Manuel Sousa Valério

Rui Manuel Sousa Valério, SMM (born 24 December 1964), officially Dom Rui I, is a Portuguese prelate of the Catholic Church and a member of the Missionaries of the Company of Mary (Monfortans) who has been the Patriarch of Lisbon since September 2023. He has been a bishop since 2018 and headed the Military Ordinariate of Portugal from 2018 to 2023.

Biography Rui Manuel Sousa Valério was born on 24 December 1964 in Urqueira, Ourem, Portugal. He first learned of Our Lady of Fátima from his grandmother, who was one of the witnesses of the Miracle of the Sun of 13 October 1917.

He continued his studies while a priest, participating in a study on the writings of Saint Louis Marie Grignon de Monfort and on Morfortian spirituality in 1995–96 at the Monfort International Center in Leuven, Belgium. He also undertook doctoral studies in theology at the Catholic University of Portugal in 1997. He received his episcopal consecration on the following 25 November, and he was installed on 11 December at the Igreja da Memória, the Cathedral of the Diocese of the Armed and Security Forces. He was the first Portuguese Monfortan to become a bishop.

On 10 August 2023, Pope Francis appointed him the Patriarch of Lisbon. He was installed on 2 September.