This article aims to examine the biography of an inquisitor of Goa, João Delgado Figueira, from the documentation produced by the Portuguese Inquisition that was investigating allegations of bad practices made by this official. Despite being an important figure, was inquisitor in the courts of Inquisitions of Goa, Evora and Lisbon, and member of the first Conselho Ultramarino, there is very little consolidated information about this historical figure. If, on the one hand, he was accused of mismanaging the things of the Holy Office, on the other there is a well documented organizational effort of the Inquisition of Goa by João Delgado Figueira. Thus a reading of the documentation provides the inquisitorial profile analysis of this contradictory character.
Inquisition of Goa; João Delgado Figueira; biography.