Governor of Macau

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 sovereignty over Macau to China by the office of the Chief Executive of Macau.

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

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

№	Governor	Tenure		Days
		Took office	Left office
1	Francisco Mascarenhas	7 July 1623	19 July 1626	1108
2	Filipe Lobo and Jerónimo da Silveira (Co-serving)	19 July 1626	1 December 1631	1961
3	Manuel da Câmara de Noronha	1 December 1631	August 1636	~1705
4	Domingos da Câmara de Noronha	August 1636	August 1638	~730
5	Sebastião Lobo da Silveira	August 1638	August 1645	~2557
6	Luís de Carvalho e Sousa	August 1645	August 1647	~730
7	João Pereira	August 1647	August 1650	~1096
8	João de Sousa Pereira	August 1650	August 1654	~1461
9	Manuel Tavares Bocarro	August 1654	22 July 1664	~3643
10	Manuel Borges da Silva	22 July 1664	31 August 1667	1135
11	Álvaro da Silva	31 August 1667	20 July 1670	1054
12	Manuel Borges da Silva	20 July 1670	20 July 1672	731
13	António Barbosa Lobo	20 July 1672	10 December 1678	2334
14	António de Castro Sande	10 December 1678	10 December 1679	365
15	Luís de Melo Sampaio	10 December 1679	10 December 1682	1461
16	Belchior do Amaral de Meneses	10 December 1682	5 July 1685	573
17	António de Mesquita Pimentel	5 July 1685	31 July 1688	1122
18	André Coelho Vieira	31 July 1688	21 July 1691	1085
19	Francisco da Costa	21 July 1691	23 November 1693	856
20	António da Silva e Melo	23 November 1693	21 July 1694	240
21	Gil Vaz Lobo Freire	21 July 1694	17 August 1697	1123
22	Cosme Rodrigues de Carvalho e Sousa	17 August 1697	28 September 1697	42
—	Municipal Council of Macau	28 September 1697	9 August 1698	315
23	Pedro Vaz de Sequeira	9 August 1698	5 August 1700	726
24	Diogo de Melo Sampaio	5 August 1700	22 July 1702	716
25	Pedro Vaz de Sequeira	22 July 1702	15 August 1703	389
26	José da Gama Machado	15 August 1703	5 August 1706	1086
27	Diogo do Pinho Teixeira	5 August 1706	28 July 1710	1453
28	Francisco de Melo e Castro	28 July 1710	11 June 1711	318
29	António de Sequeira de Noronha	11 June 1711	18 July 1714	1133
30	Francisco de Alarcão Sotto-Maior	18 July 1714	30 May 1718	1412
31	António de Albuquerque Coelho	30 May 1718	9 September 1719	467
32	António da Silva Telo e Meneses	9 September 1719	19 August 1722	1075
33	Cristóvão de Severim Manuel	19 August 1722	6 September 1724	749
34	António Carneiro de Alcáçova	6 September 1724	6 September 1727	1095
35	António Moniz Barreto	6 September 1727	18 August 1732	1808
36	António de Amaral Meneses	18 August 1732	15 January 1735	880
37	João do Casal	15 January 1735	4 August 1735	201
38	Cosme Damião Pinto Pereira	4 August 1735	25 August 1738	1117
39	Diogo Pereira	25 August 1738	25 August 1743	1826
40	António de Mendonça Corte-Real	25 August 1743	30 August 1747	1466
41	José Plácido de Matos Saraiva	30 August 1747	2 August 1749	703
42	Diogo Fernandes Salema e Saldanha	2 August 1749	29 July 1752	1092
43	Rodrigo de Castro	29 July 1752	14 July 1755	1080
44	Francisco António Pereira Coutinho	14 July 1755	1 July 1758	1083
45	Diogo Pereira de Castro	1 July 1758	4 July 1761	1099
46	António de Mendonça Corte-Real	4 July 1761	14 July 1764	1106
47	José Plácido de Matos Saraiva	14 July 1764	19 August 1767	1131
48	Diogo Fernandes Salema e Saldanha	19 August 1767	29 July 1770	1075
49	Rodrigo de Castro	29 July 1770	26 July 1771	362
50	Diogo Fernandes Salema e Saldanha	26 July 1771	27 January 1778	2377
51	Alexandre da Silva Pedrosa Guimarães	27 January 1778	1 August 1778	186
52	José Vicente da Silveira Meneses	1 August 1778	5 January 1780	522
53	António José da Costa	5 January 1780	28 August 1781	601
54	Francisco de Castro	28 August 1781	18 August 1783	692
55	Bernardo Aleixo de Lemos e Faria	18 August 1783	21 July 1788	1827
56	Francisco Xavier de Mendonça Corte-Real	21 July 1788	18 July 1789	362
57	Lázaro da Silva Ferreira and Manuel António Costa Ferreira (Co-serving)	18 July 1789	29 July 1790	376
58	Vasco Luís Carneiro de Sousa e Faro	29 July 1790	27 July 1793	1094
59	José Manuel Pinto	27 July 1793	8 August 1797	1473
60	Cristóvão Pereira de Castro	8 August 1797	8 August 1800	1095
61	José Manuel Pinto	8 August 1800	8 August 1803	1095
62	Caetano de Sousa Pereira	8 August 1803	8 August 1806	1096
63	Bernardo Aleixo de Lemos e Faria	8 August 1806	26 December 1808	871
64	Lucas José de Alvarenga	26 December 1808	19 July 1810	570
65	Bernardo Aleixo de Lemos e Faria	19 July 1810	19 July 1814	1461
66	Lucas José de Alvarenga	19 July 1814	19 July 1817	1096
67	José Osório de Castro de Albuquerque	19 July 1817	19 August 1822	1857
68	Major Paulino da Silva Barbosa	19 August 1822	23 September 1823	400
—	Government Council	23 September 1823	28 July 1825	674
69	Joaquim Mourão Garcez Palha	28 July 1825	15 November 1827	840
—	Government Council	15 November 1827	7 July 1830	965
70	João Cabral de Estefique	7 July 1830	3 July 1833	1092
71	Bernardo José de Sousa Soares Andrea	3 July 1833	22 February 1837	1330
72	Adrião Acácio da Silveira Pinto	22 February 1837	3 October 1843	2414
73	José Gregório Pegado	3 October 1843	21 April 1846	931
74	João Maria Ferreira do Amaral	21 April 1846	22 August 1849	1219
—	Government Council	22 August 1849	30 May 1850	281
75	Pedro Alexandrino da Cunha	30 May 1850	7 July 1850	38
—	Government Council	7 July 1850	3 February 1851	211
76	Francisco António Gonçalves Cardoso	3 February 1851	19 November 1851	289
77	Isidoro Francisco Guimarães	19 November 1851	22 June 1863	4233
78	José Rodrigues Coelho do Amaral	22 June 1863	26 October 1866	1222
79	José Maria da Ponte e Horta	26 October 1866	3 August 1868	647
80	António Sérgio de Sousa	3 August 1868	23 March 1872	1328
81	Januário Correia de Almeida	23 March 1872	7 December 1874	989
82	José Maria Lobo de Ávila	7 December 1874	31 December 1876	755
83	Carlos Eugénio Correia da Silva	31 December 1876	28 November 1879	1062
84	Joaquim José da Graça	28 November 1879	23 April 1883	1242
85	Tomás de Sousa Rosa	23 April 1883	7 August 1886	1202
86	Firmino José da Costa	7 August 1886	5 February 1889	913
87	Francisco Teixeira da Silva	5 February 1889	16 October 1890	618
88	Custódio Miguel de Borja	16 October 1890	24 March 1894	1255
89	José Maria de Sousa Horta e Costa (1st time)	24 March 1894	12 May 1897	1145
90	Eduardo Augusto Rodrigues Galhardo	12 May 1897	12 August 1900	1187
(89)	José Maria de Sousa Horta e Costa (2nd time)	12 August 1900	17 December 1902	857
91	Arnaldo de Novais Guedes Rebelo	17 December 1902	10 December 1903	358
—	Government Council	10 December 1903	5 April 1904	117
92	Martinho Pinto de Queirós Montenegro	5 April 1904	6 April 1907	1230
93	Pedro de Azevedo Coutinho	6 April 1907	18 August 1908	401
94	José Augusto Alves Roçadas	18 August 1908	22 September 1909	451
95	Eduardo Augusto Marques	22 September 1909	17 December 1910	209
96	Álvaro de Melo Machado	17 December 1910	14 July 1912	731
97	Aníbal Augusto Sanches de Miranda	14 July 1912	10 June 1914	783
98	José Carlos da Maia	10 June 1914	5 September 1916	731
99	Manuel Ferreira da Rocha and Agostinho Vieira de Matos (Co-serving)	5 September 1916	12 October 1918	767
100	Artur Tamagnini de Sousa Barbosa	12 October 1918	23 August 1919	315
101	Henrique Monteiro Correia da Silva	23 August 1919	5 January 1923	1517
102	Rodrigo José Rodrigues	5 January 1923	18 October 1925	731
103	Manuel Firmino de Almeida Maia Magalhães	18 October 1925	8 December 1926	416
104	Artur Tamagnini de Sousa Barbosa	8 December 1926	30 March 1931	1573
105	Joaquim Anselmo de Mata Oliveira	30 March 1931	21 June 1932	449
106	António José Bernardes de Miranda	21 June 1932	11 April 1937	1755
107	Artur Tamagnini de Sousa Barbosa	11 April 1937	29 October 1940	1297
108	Gabriel Maurício Teixeira	29 October 1940	1 September 1947	2498
109	Albano Rodrigues de Oliveira	1 September 1947	23 November 1951	1544
110	Joaquim Marques Esparteiro	23 November 1951	8 March 1957	1932
111	Pedro Correia de Barros	8 March 1957	18 September 1959	924
112	Jaime Silvério Marques	18 September 1959	17 April 1962	1164
113	António Lopes dos Santos	17 April 1962	25 November 1966	1461
114	José Manuel de Sousa e Faro Nobre de Carvalho	25 November 1966	19 November 1974	2916
115	José Eduardo Martinho Garcia Leandro	19 November 1974	28 November 1979	1835
116	Nuno Viriato Tavares de Melo Egídio	28 November 1979	16 June 1981	566
117	Vasco de Almeida e Costa	16 June 1981	15 May 1986	1794
118	Joaquim Pinto Correia	15 May 1986	9 July 1987	420
119	Carlos Montez Melancia	9 July 1987	23 April 1991	1384
120	Vasco Joaquim Rocha Vieira	23 April 1991	19 December 1999	3162

See also

• History of Macau
• Portuguese Macau